Visual Studio 2015 Syntax highlighting in C Project - c++

I've got a big problem with VS2015. In .c files or .cpp there aren't a syntax highlighting.
loaded settings from my friend -> didn't work
reinstalled -> didn't work
ask my Prof. -> he looked in my settings and haven't an idea because all is ok
Can you help me?
It's like windows notepad.
edit: I updated VS2015 now and the syntax highlighting works. :)


Start VS2015 with command-line options /ResetUserData or /ResetSettings, e.g.:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /ResetUserData
and/or:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /ResetSettings
Note: You will lose all your user settings and recent projects/files list

Related

Install LibRaw from Github-Repo in Windows [duplicate]

I recently installed Visual Studio 2017 and need to change something in a C++ project.
But when I try to build, it says cl.exe is missing. None of the solutions provided online seem to work.
I do have a cl.exe, but it is located under this path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX64\x64
I have also tried running vcvars32.bat, but that does not seem to make any changes.
And I have installed 'Desktop development with C++'.

I solved it by running vcvars.bat.
For Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 it is located under the following directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext

Visual Studio 2017 failed to locate cl.exe

I recently installed Visual Studio 2017 and need to change something in a C++ project.
But when I try to build, it says cl.exe is missing. None of the solutions provided online seem to work.
I do have a cl.exe, but it is located under this path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX64\x64
I have also tried running vcvars32.bat, but that does not seem to make any changes.
And I have installed 'Desktop development with C++'.

I solved it by running vcvars.bat.
For Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 it is located under the following directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\ext

Compiling STXXL on visual studio 2015

I am trying to use STXXL map in my c++ code in visual studio 2015.
I followed the instruction on http://stxxl.sourceforge.net/tags/master/install_windows.html'
and when I try to build the project in visual studio I get this message:
"<"hash_map">" is deprecated and will be REMOVED. Please use . You can define _SILENCE_STDEXT_HASH_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS to acknowledge that you have received this warning."
I tried to add _SILENCE_STDEXT_HASH_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS to the preproseccor definitions but it did not help.
It lookes like the problem comes from the file hash_map in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\include" directory.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
Thanks,
Rachel.

Making BJAM 1.33.1 in boost compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 8

When trying to build a boost 1.33.1 library with bjam, I keep getting thousands of errors with command similar to this:
CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\VCVARS32.BAT" >nul
Is there any way to change where bjam searchs for Microsoft Visual Studio for boost 1.33.1? My Visual Studio installation is located in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8"

Thank you for the suggestions ildjarn and Nicol Bolas.
I did a manual text search for VC98 and found an HTML help file, msvc-tools.html, which states that if the MSVC_ROOT variable defaults to "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98" if not specified. I simply set the MSVC_ROOT variable to my Visual Studio 8 directory and things compiled.

C++ #include <atlbase.h> is not found

When I compile my C++ program in Visual Studio Express it says that it can't find atlbase.h. Am I missing some SDK or something?

Visual Studio 2017
When running the Visual Studio Installer, select the Individual components tab, and under SDKs, libraries, and frameworks make sure Visual C++ ATL Support is selected.

It is included with the Windows Driver Kit Version 7.1.0.

Microsoft ATL (Active Template Library), which includes the header atlbase.h is included with the Windows 2003 SDK, but it is not included with any newer Windows SDK release. It is also included with Professional editions of Visual Studio.

Solution for Visual Studio 2017 Express edition
I had the same error when building a COM C++ project in Visual Studio 2017 Express edition. As mentioned by several users here, ATL support is not included with the Express edition of Visual Studio. So to build a C++ COM/ATL project you need at least the Community edition.
If you really need to use the Express edition, you can download and install the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017. Make sure to enable the 'Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64' component during the setup.
After that add additional VC++ directories in the project properties:
Include directories: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\atlmfc\include
Library directories: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\atlmfc\lib\x86
The VC++ compiler should now be able to find the ATL source and library files.

For users of Visual Studio 2015, ensure Common Tools for C++ is installed (part of the VS installer).

Situation
With Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, we installed "Visual C++ ATL support" and MFC and ATL support. The error still occurred in our x64 project.
Solution
We fixed some paths with the following two commands:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC>mklink /d atlmfc "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib>mklink /d amd64 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib\x64
Details
We eventually found the header atlbase.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\include. This path simply was not added to the VC Include directory by vsvars32.bat, so the header was not found during build.
vsvars32.bat includes the following line:
#if exist "%VCINSTALLDIR%ATLMFC\INCLUDE" set INCLUDE=%VCINSTALLDIR%ATLMFC\INCLUDE;%INCLUDE%`.
This resolved to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\atlmfc\include in our machine.
We created a directory junction, so the build tool finds atlbase.h in the expected directory (this is the first command from the Solution section above):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC>mklink /d atlmfc "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc"
Afterwards, the linker did not find atls.lib (see Cannot Open File atls.lib). This was due to the expected file structure was that lib should directly contain the x86 version of the libs and lib\amd64 should contain the x64 variants. Instead, lib\x86 contained the x86 versions and lib\x64 contained the 64 bit versions. Since we build a 64 bit project, creating another directory junk from amd64 to x64 solved the problem:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib>mklink /d amd64 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\atlmfc\lib\x64

That header appears to be a part of the Windows Platform SDK.
You should search your computer for the file. That will tell you if you're missing it.

I had same problem with sample project. I specified the sample project's properties and the sample project compiled successfully.
Visual Studio 8
For header
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include
For .lib file
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\lib

I have not yet seen anyone mention Visual Studio 2015 (MSBuild 14.0). In this case I've had to download Visual C++ BuildTools (found here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/). After having installed this, running the installer again allowed me to modify the installation and include the ATL libs.
Hope this helps anyone that is still using MSBuild 14.0