We use the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET IDE (Interactive Development Environment) for creating and running the C++ programs for this course. Note: You may also have the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 environment on your PC, but we will not be using that.
Visual C++ is a product of Microsoft (www.microsoft.com).
The Visual Studio Workspace
Visual Studio by default prompts you to put project files under My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\<project_name>. This is a reasonable default, but you may want to consider using something like My Documents\My CS1030 Labs\Lab1 as an alternative.
Content help is built into Visual Studio.