Tuesday 23 January 2018

How to create a C project in Visual Studio

Bizarre as it may seem, there is no option to create a C project in Visual Studio. You can create C++ projects by making a simple selection from the New Project dialog - but not C projects. Does that mean you can’t use Visual Studio to program in standard C? No, it just means that Microsoft, for reasons that I’ve never understood, has decided to ‘hide’ its C programming capabilities. In fact, if you want to use Visual Studio to program in C, it’s quite easy to do. This short video shows you how…