
If you are interested in doing the same, then read the next part of this post. Now, sometimes I wanted to work on something real quick (like a small program or snippet), so loading Visual Studio for the sake of editing a single source file was a bit out of line (although performance is not the issue – it still loads really fast), so I decided to go another way – to set up a simple text editor ( Notepad++ in my case) to be able to compile C++ programs by using the Microsoft C++ compiler. NET and I would really like to work with managed C++, as well as with unmanaged in one environment), started a couple of sample projects and got the basic ideas. I picked up a Visual C++ 2008 book (I wanted to start with Visual C++ since I already have some experience with. Recently I decided that I need to work more with C++ than I do now (my primary focus being C#).

Going The C++ Way With Microsoft C And C++ Compiler And Notepad++ An outline of my journey to explore C and C++ with the native Microsoft compiler and some minimal tooling.
