Re: Complete Newbie question

From:

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:44:04 -0700

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The project template dictates the initial project settings as others
already pointed out. The big difference between these two templates
in particular is that they target the two different subsystems the
Windows loader uses for the application - subsystem Windows
vs subsystem Console. Dfferent flavors of the CRT startup code
are used and you need to implement different entry point functions:
[w]main for Console and [w]WinMain for Windows subsystems.
(The 'w' versions ares used in UNICODE builds.)

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Alexander Nickolov
Microsoft MVP [VC], MCSD
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"GeorgeJ" <GeorgeJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0564EF11-865B-4908-B1CF-F662B2B97C6B@microsoft.com...

Hello. I messed around w/ Borland TURBO C++ some years ago so I know
something of the language. I purchased Microsoft Visual Studio a while
ago
and have finally gotten around to trying it out. I am following the
instruction in MICROSOFT VISUAL C++.NET STEP BY STEP. The first program
was
a Hello World program. Here is the source code

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout << "Hello, World" << endl;
return 0;
}

The book instructs the user to select the "Win32 Console Project"
templates
pane. The first time I tried I selected the wrong template pane (the
Win32,
not the Win32 Console) & when I did a build on the above file I got
errors.
The second time I selected the correct template pane and was able to
compile
and run the program. My question is - since the .ccp file I created was
the
same in both cases, what exactly is the function of the template pane?
Clearly the compiler gets different information depending on which
template
pane is selected. How do I find out what this different information is?

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-regards