Thread: Any resources or tools for converting C++ to Visual C++?

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    Any resources or tools for converting C++ to Visual C++?

    This includes guides, generators, and books.

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    What exactly do you mean by "Visual C++"?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    Well, unless you mean managed C++ or some other special brand, there is nothing you need to convert C++ to compile in Microsoft's compiler (unless they are non-standard conforming in some area).

    What exactly are you trying to do? Are you simply trying to learn how to write Windows GUI applications?

    Edit: Ah, beat again.

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    laserlight, from Wikipedia:
    Microsoft Visual C++ (often abbreviated as MSVC) is a commercial integrated development environment (IDE) product engineered by Microsoft for the C, C++, and C++/CLI programming languages. It has tools for developing and debugging C++ code, especially code written for the Microsoft Windows API, the DirectX API, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
    I specifally want to write Visual C++ for Excel.

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    Right. So, as you quoted, visual C++ is not something you can write. You can write C, or C++, or C++/CLI, and the program Visual C++ will be able to compile it.

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    In short, Visual C++ is not a language exactly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Advice Pro View Post
    laserlight, from Wikipedia:


    I specifally want to write Visual C++ for Excel.
    This seems a bit reversed from the original title of your thread. I mean if you have a standard C++ application (i.e. a console application) it should compile just fine in Visual C++. However Microsoft does have a lot of little (and not so little) interfaces and add ons. Here's what I got in 5 seconds from Google.

    How to automate Excel from C++ without using MFC or #import

    I'm sure there is a lot more on it if you look around a bit. I don't however see any need for a conversion tool to do what you want though.

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    Why use C++ to automate Excel when you can probably do it far quicker and with less fuss in VBA?

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