C and Visual Studio 2010

It looks like MS Visual Studio (VS) is really well designed for C++.
Visual Studio is simply a compilation of many "Visual ..." programs. Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual...whatever.

Check out the wikipedia page for more information regarding what else the VS has.

Since it's used more for C++ than C, you need to change a few things to use it with C.

I use VS2010, so the following pictures are all from the 2010 version.

The pictures are pretty much self explanatory. If pictures are too small, click them. They'll enlarge.


Start VS2010.

It's starting

This is the first thing you'll see.

 

Do as it says.

Keep on going.

You may want to choose differently later, but if you're just starting out C, do as it says.

Keep going.

Continue.

 

This is the last step. Now VS is ready for C programming.

That's it. I know it's a bit of hassle, but you'll get used to it.

There's a small problem. You need to do this every time you start a new project. If you open an existing project, the VS will know what you were doing before.