C programming in Visual Studio

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Can I use Visual Studio to learn C programming  In the new project menu I can choose between Visual Basic  Visual C   Visual C    Visual F  and others but I don t see  C  or  Visual C

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Yes  you can      You can create a C-language project by using C   project templates  In the generated project  locate files that have a  cpp file name extension and change it to  c  Then  on the Project Properties page for the project  not for the solution   expand Configuration Properties  C C   and select Advanced  Change the Compile As setting to Compile as C Code   TC     https   docs microsoft com en-us cpp ide visual-cpp-project-types view vs-2017

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Short answer  Yes  you need to rename  cpp files to c  so you can write C  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library bb384838 aspx f 255 amp MSPPError -2147217396  From the link above      By default  the Visual C   compiler treats all files that end in  c as C source code  and all files that end in  cpp as C   source code  To force the compiler to treat all files as C regardless of file name extension  use the  Tc compiler option    That being said  I do not recommend learning C language in Visual Studio  why VS  It does have lots of features you are not going to use while learning C

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You can use Visual Studio for C  but if you are serious about learning the newest C available  I recommend using something like Code  Blocks with MinGW-TDM version  which you can get a 32 bit version of   I use version 5 1 which supports the newest C and C     Another benefit is that it is a better platform for creating software that can be easily ported to other platforms   If you were  for example  to code in C  using the SDL library  you could create software that could be recompiled with little to no changes to the code  on Linux  Apple and many mobile devices   The way Microsoft has been going these days  I think this is definitely the better route to take

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Download visual studio c   express version 2006 2010 etc  then goto create new project  and create c   project select cmd project check empty rename cc with c extension  file name

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Yes it is  none of the Visual Stdio editions have C mentioned  but it is included with the C   compiler  you therefore need to look under C      The main difference between using C and C   is the naming system  i e  using  c and not  cpp      You do have to be careful not to create a C   project and rename it to C though  that does not work   Coding C from the command line   Much like you can use gcc on Linux  or if you have MinGW installed  Visual Studio has a command to be used from command prompt  it must be the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt though   As mentioned in the other answer you can use cl to compile your c file  make sure it is named  c   Example     cl myfile c   Or to check all the accepted commands   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community gt cl Microsoft  R  C C   Optimizing Compiler Version 19 16 27030 1 for x86 Copyright  C  Microsoft Corporation   All rights reserved   usage  cl   option      filename       link linkoption       C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community gt    Coding C from the IDE   Without doubt one of the best features of Visual Studio is the convenient IDE    Although it takes more configuring  you get bonuses such as basic debugging before compiling  for example if you forget a      To create a C project do the following   Start a new project  go under C   and select Empty Project  enter the Name of your project and the Location you want it to install to  then click Ok   Now wait for the project to be created     Next under Solutions Explorer right click Source Files  select Add then New Item   You should see something like this     Rename Source cpp to include a  c extension  Source c for example    Select the location you want to keep it in   I would recommend always keeping it within the project folder itself  in this case C  Users Simon Desktop Learn My First C Code   It should open up the  c file  ready to be modified   Visual Studio can now be used as normal  happy coding

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Yes  you very well can learn C using Visual Studio   Visual Studio comes with its own C compiler  which is actually the C   compiler  Just use the  c file extension to save your source code   You don t have to be using the IDE to compile C  You can write the source in Notepad  and compile it in command line using Developer Command Prompt which comes with Visual Studio   Open the Developer Command Prompt  enter the directory you are working in  use the cl command to compile your C code   For example  cl helloworld c compiles a file named helloworld c   Refer this for more information  Walkthrough  Compiling a C Program on the Command Line  Hope this helps

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