CHAPTER 2
Compile and Run
Visual Studio Compilation
Continuing from the last chapter, the Hello World program is now complete and ready to be compiled and run. You can do this by going to the Debug menu and clicking on Start Without Debugging (Ctrl + F5). Visual Studio then compiles and runs the application which displays the text in a console window.
If you select Start Debugging (F5) from the Debug menu instead, the console window displaying Hello World will close as soon as the main function is finished. To prevent this you can add a call to the cin::get function at the end of main. This function, belonging to the console input stream, will ...
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