19 Quick Start Guide

Getting started with App3Dev

Step 1: Download and install Visual Studio Community edition from Visual Studio

Step 2: When installing Visual Studio choose to include the workload Desktop Development with C++

Step 3: After installation, start Visual Studio, and from the start page choose Clone or checkout code

Step 4: Click on GitHub, browse to JackHeeley/App3Dev and click the Clone button.

Step 5: Once cloning is complete, select the Solution Explorer panel and switch from the Folder View to the App3Dev.sln view (this is the more useful way to browse the solution).

Step 6: Right click on the project called SampleProject and select Set as Startup project from the menu. (SampleProject will then be shown in bold text).

Step 7: Right click again on SampleProject and select Build from the menu. After building complete, the output window should show:

========== Build: 3 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

You are now ready to go! Depending on your experience you may need to study and learn the Visual Studio features and capabilities before you can use them to browse explore test and experiment with App3Dev.

HINTS for NOOBS!

Visual Studio main menu ribbon Build, Debug & Test tabs are an interesting place to start:

Build/Batch Build/Select All/Clean - deletes stuff that was previously and/or is partially built

Build/Batch Build/Select All/Build - builds all of the solution components in all configurations

BE PATIENT! A full build of all counfigurations with default settings (which include a full code analysis with all GSL and Microsoft rules being checked on the x64 release build) currently takes about a quarter of an hour to complete. Your experience may differ.

Debug/Start without Debugging - runs program (in a console window)

Test/Run All Tests - runs all unit tests (in the current configuration)

For CODE SampleProgram/Source Files/main.cpp is the place to start reading.