If someone could shed some light on this for me it would be great.
I tool basic c/c++ classes about 8 yrs ago, and I want to get back into it.
However the books are from that time, and the editor is just downloaded from MS.
I noticed that the code in the book is how I remembered, simplistic, but in the Visual studio editor there are upwards of 8 files to produce a "hello" in command window.
Did C advance that much or is it just the editor complicating things.
Basically Visual Studio generates a lot of files in the project structure so you don’t have to. It uses wizards to setup your project, it is entirely possible to start a console project and have no source file created for you. The types of project that can be done with Visual Studio include (can depend on version): pure C; pure C++; Win32 console; CLR Console…