Re: How to open a file?

From:
Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:34:29 +0200
Message-ID:
<nbhdq4-433.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>
tee_huipeng@yahoo.com.sg wrote:

may i know how to open a file that i wrote before? what i mean is ...i
write a program to create a simple dialog box with some buttons to
perform some job, after that i save all those code? (is it name file?
or...?)

when i try to open, i can see a folder with the name i give it before
(e.g. GraphicsDay8)...inside the folder there is a lot of files like
resource source file, c header file, c++ source file.... so which one
should i open? what is all these things mean? can anyone tell me?


The thing you created is called 'project'. It consists of a main project
file (*.vcproj) and other files, some of which are source files, others are
generated or compiled from the sources. Further, usually you have
a 'workspace' or 'solution' file (*.sln) which is not really necessary for
your project itself but it contains references to one or more projects and
is used by the developer studio. Typically, this is the file you need to
open.

one more problem is, if i simply open one of these files , i cant get
back the developer environment in which the Resource view button at
the workspace pane is lost. i can obly see class and file view
only..why? what's the problem?


If you open the project, or, rather, the solution/workspace, you will see
the complete fileview including the resource view. If you only open a
single C++ sourcefile, you don't have any resources for editing and so the
resource view isn't show.

Uli

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