Microsoft Visual C++/cli step by Step

Creating an executable application—theory

Several stages are required to build an executable application; Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 helps you 

accomplish this by automating them. To examine and understand these stages, however, let’s look at 

them briefly. You’ll see these stages again later in the chapter when we build our first application.

Editing the application source files

Before you can create an application, you must write something. Visual Studio 2012 provides an 

integrated C++ editor, complete with color syntax highlighting and Microsoft IntelliSense to show 

function parameter information and provide word completion.