Building the Starter Application

The starter application you created provides the beginnings of a working application for the Windows operating system. You can build either a Release or a Debug version, because the development environment generates project files and settings for both versions.

Suggested Reading in the Visual C++ Programmer’s Guide

• File Types Created for Visual C++ Projects

Before compiling, select the type of project you want to build.

To select Debug or Release build options

• From the Default Configuration drop-down list on the Build toolbar, select the type of project — either Win32 Debug or Win32 Release — you want to build.

  The project type you specify will remain the default until you change it again.

  The Build Toolbar

  

To build the starter application

• From the Build menu, click Build scribble.exe.

  This builds the default version of the starter application, producing the file Scribble.exe in your project directory.

When you build the starter Scribble application from the files that AppWizard creates — without adding a single line of code — the result is an application that runs, opens and closes windows, and lets you perform other generic operations on the windows. Try running the application to see this basic functionality.