I am not looking for information on any one programming language that may be supported by a current Visual Studio Express system, but I am looking for more fundamental information on the VSE IDE process, itself. A text that would go into detail on such subjects as:
Name spaces; Solutions; Projects; Classes; Objects; Tasks; Items; Dependencies
I am much more comfortable with the programming languages themselves then I am with the development wrapper (the "IDE" as it were).
For example, a typical question I might find myself asking when trying to track down an undefined External would be "which of the six identically named libraries scattered around the system did the linker actually look into for the errant public name, is the name there in one or several of them, if so, why wasn't it found, if it wasn't there, why wasn't it?
Another question could be how do I link in a small test library that for reasons of convenience I wish to keep relatively close at hand (e.g., not in such a place it will take a sixty-character URL to define where it is).
As you can see these are not programming questions, but development questions--IDE questions.
Is there a book or a pamphlet or even just an appendix in a larger book that describes the VSE development environment in detail? It is most disconcerting for me to be presented with a check box asking me chose a development option that I haven't a slightest clue about.
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Express C++ running on Windows 7 Pro (updated). I must stay with the Express version of the IDE for reasons that don't pertain to the project itself.
So, can anyone help me locate such a reference? Does it even exist?
Any and all help greatly appreciated.
Dick Flanagan
MSCS,CDP,RBP
dick@k7vc.com