Maintain C projects in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

Hello!

Do you know of any extension (desired free) for VS (or VCPP) 10 that adds C projects productivity (i.e. templates, headers control, syntax highlighting etc.)?

Thanks

Answer 1

Visual Studio already ships with support for C. That includes project files, a compiler, header files, syntax highlighting and debugging support. What are you missing (apart from C99)?

Answer 2

1. Create a standard C++ project such as a Win32 Console Application (it doesn't matter which one).
2. Add a new item (Project menu, Add New Item...) and select "C++ File (.cpp)"
3. Here is the important step. Give the file a ".c" extension rather than a ".cpp" extension. By calling the file ".c", Visual Studio will compile it as C instead of C++.

Answer 3

Create a Win32 C++ project and from the Solution Explorer right-click your projcet and select Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As -> Compile As C., then rename the *.cpp extensions to *.c and build your project.
You may want to delete some unimportant files like stadfx.cpp and targetver.h (remove its linkage from stdafx.h).