This topic explains concepts you’ll need to know to build Scribble. General procedures for compiling and linking MFC programs in Visual C++ and running the executable program under Windows are introduced in Compiling and Building Your Project in the Tutorial Introduction.
As you progress though the tutorial, adding code as you read, you should occasionally build the version of the project that you’ve been developing. When you build your project, you should be in your Scribble project directory and have the project open. Setting up the project directory is described in the procedure, To create starter files for Scribble in Lesson 2.