C in Visual Studio

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C in Visual Studio

Hi,  I am a bit of a newbie and I am wondering, if I want to program in C with either Visual Studio 2003 or 2005, can I just open up a new C++ project   Or if not is there some add-in I can use to allow me to develop C programs using Visual Studio   I've tried searching on the web but it always comes back with C++ or C# with visual studio.  If I can't do it in Visual studio (other than using it like a text editor) is there a good C IDE someone can recommend

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C in Visual Studio

  • Puzzled

    Ya,  actually i have to do a certain project in C so I can't use C++.

  • daras

    Just create your files with a .C extension and they will automatically be compiled as C89 code. Alternatively, you can right click on a file in Visual Studio 2003 and select properties, then in Configuration Properties->C++->Advanced, click on where it says "Compile As" and select "Compile as C code."

    VC++ doesn't currently support C99, and I'm not certain they ever plan to do so at this point in time, since the desire for it isn't exactly overwhelming. If you aren't sure whether you want the C89 or C99 standard of C, you probably just want C89 anyway, so it shouldn't be an issue.

    Also, if you do happen to need C99, you can use Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/) with the MinGW port of GCC.

  • VisualStudio Rocks!

    "VC++ doesn't currently support C99, and I'm not certain they ever plan to do so at this point in time" -- not exactly true.

    We are supporting some C99 features that our customers explicitely asked for:

    * Variadic macros
    * long long
    * C++-style comments
    * "restrict" keyword (currently implemented as "__restrict"; there is some ambiguity in C99, and we don't want to implement something that would not be part of new C++ Standard)

    Thanks,
    Eugene



  • Carty

    You should be able to use a C++ project for everything you wish to do in C. I'm moving this thread over to the C++ forum as they will be far more helpful on this topic than I can be.

    Thanks,
    Aaron

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