Visual Studio 2005 Basic Knowledge - How doing debugging on C# codes

Question

My knowledge is very limited on VS in fact it's the first time I am using it and very little I know of C debugging too.

I have pre-existing .c and .o files that have been transferred into my folder and I open VS to edit them. I then compile on a unix windows with the icl command. What I get is obviously error messages because those files have been run in Linux compilers and never into Windows ones.

In blogs I always find mention to changing project properties when it's about resolving, i.e. _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE warnings or other types of errors. My problem is that I don't see those .c files as projects when I open them from VS so I cannot change those properties.

Do I have to turn them into projects? Or do I have to simply move them into folder where VS opens files from by default?

Help is needed, please.

Thanks F

Answer 1

This is a quess. This assumes that your code is not dependent on anything.

1. You should create a C project (you may have to use empty project)
2. Add your c files to the project.
3. Right click solution and hit build.

Answer 2

You cannot use .c file in a C# project, it is a completely different language. Forums cannot really provide you with a short-cut for basic knowledge and skills you'll need to acquire to bring this project to a good end. You'll need to take the time, experiment, read a few books.