Lab 1-Getting Started With VC2005

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C Programming LabUniversiti Tenaga Nasional

Prepared by MAF 2009 1

1 Starting Visual Studio 2005

Creating a new Project

1. From STARTmenu, select:

Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005-> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

2. You are going to see this page (refer Figure 1).

Figure 1

3. Go to Create: ->Click Project.

4. New Project window will pop-out (refer Figure 2).

CreateProject


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Figure 2

5. Choose Win32 for Project types: (refer Figure 2-(a)). For Templates: choose Win32

Console Application (refer Figure 2- (b)). In Name: text box, type MyProject (refer

Figure 2- (c)). Choose the location where you want to save your file it is advisable for

you to save your file in My Documentor Desktopfor easy access later by browsing the

location. Click OK.

6. In the next window, click Next (refer Figure 3).

Figure 3

7. Tick Empty Projectfor the Additional options: (refer Figure 4). Then click Finish.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

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Figure 4

8. Now you have a project called MyProject.

Writing a File

1. After you create a project, you need to create a source file in order to write your C

program.

2. In the Solution Explorer, right-click on Source File->Add->New Item(refer Figure 5).

Figure 5

Tick here


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3. Add New Item Window will appear (refer Figure 6). Click on C++ File (.cpp) refer

Figure 6 (a). In the Name: textbox, type Lab1 (refer Figure 6 (b)). DO NOTchange the

location of the file because automatically, the file will be saved in the same directory as

the Project (in your case it is MyProject)

Figure 6

4. You will see 3 windows Files and Classes Information, Editor and Output. Files and

Classes Information window will tell you the structure of you project. Editor window is

the place where you put/type your codes. Message window will tell you the message

from the compilation and building process. Refer Figure 7.

Figure 7

EditorFiles and

ClassesInformation

Message Window: Compilation & Error Message

(a)

(b)


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5. You are now ready to write your C program. You can copy and paste the program below

to you Editorwindow.

6. Your screen should look something like this (Figure 8):

Figure 8

7. To compile the program, from the menu bar (Figure 9), select Build->Compile.

Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+F7to compile the program.

#include

int main(void){

/* printing out greeting */

printf("Hello everybody!\n");

printf("This is my first C program file. \n");

return 0;}


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Figure 9

8. Your Message window will tell the output of the compilation process. For this example

you will see that you have 0 errors and 0 warning (refer Figure 10).

Figure 10

9. Since you do not have any error you can link the program by building it. To link the

program, from the menu bar (Figure 11), select Build->Build Solution. Alternatively, you

can press F7to link the program.


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Figure 11

10.Your Message window will tell the output of the linking process. For this example you

will see that you have 0 errors and 0 warning (refer Figure 12).

Figure 12


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11.To run (execute) the program, from the menu bar, select Debug->Start Without

Debugging. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+F5 (refer Figure 13). Try running the above

program and you should have produce something like the following Output window

(Figure 14)

Figure 13

Figure 14

12.As you can see, only lines that start with function printf produces output in the Output

window. Therefore, whatever text that you want to appear in the Output window, you

should useprintf function.

Dealing with Compilation Error (syntax error)

1. Now, please modify thecode to be similar to the following:


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2. Compile the program (you should already know how to do this..)

3. You will notice that you have error message in your message window like the following

(Figure 15):

Figure 15

4. Double click anywhere on the first error line.

5. An arrow will appear on the line where the error is located (refer Figure 16).

#include

int main(void){

printf(Hello everybody!\n);

printf(This is my first C program file.\n);}

printf(Hello everybody!\n);

- notice that you should removethe symbol after the \n.

Number of errors in thefile

First error


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Figure 16

6. Now correct the error and recompile your program.

Attaching / Detaching a file from the workspace

There will be times when you need to create many files during your lab hours. It will be a

waste of time if you need to create a project for every one of your files. Instead, it is possible

to create one project, and you attach or detach a file to the project depending on the needs.

Arrow indicating thelocation of the error


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Detaching a file

Right-click (highlight) the file that you want to detach (in this case, it should be your

Lab1.cpp). Choose Remove (Figure 17). If you clicked the Removebutton (Figure 18), you

are not erasing and trashing all the data in the file. Instead, you are removing that particular

.cpp file from the project. Else if you clicked Deletebutton, you are going to delete the filepermanently. Therefore always be careful.

Figure 17

Figure 18

Attaching a file

Right-click on the Project name, in your case, it is MyProject folder, then choose Add>

Existing Item (Figure 19)


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Figure 19

A pop up window appear asking you to select the file(s) that you want to attach to the

workspace. Select the file (in your case it is Lab1.cpp), then press the OK button (Figure 20).The file will be put under Source Files. Click on the + sign, and then double click on Lab1.cpp

to view the file.

Figure 20


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Exercises.

1. Without closing the workspace, detach Lab1.cpp

2. Create a NEW source file. Save it as lab1a.c

3. Type the following program

4. Save your program.

5. Compile the program. After that, check what are the files listed in the directory (in

your case it should be a folder called MyProject located at either MyDocument or

Desktop (depends on where you save your project). Write them down.

6. Build the executable file. After that, check what are the files listed in the directory

now. Write them down.

7. Run the program. What is the output?

8. Go back to the program and replace the line printf (****Welcome to my C labsession \n****); with the following lines

printf (****Welcome );

printf (to my C lab session \n****);

then repeat step 2 until 5. What is the output now?

#include

int main()

{

printf ("****Welcome to my C lab session \n****");

return 0;}

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