I am new to Visual Studio. I just followed a tutorial and successfully wrote and ran a simple program. But after I closed Visual Studio and double click the cpp file I just wrote. I can't find the build menu in the Visual Studio. Could anyone tell me how to open and run the existing cpp file? I need to do some debug and don't want to begin a new project and copy the code again and again. Thanks!
No build menu in Visual Studio when opening an existing cpp file
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You need to open more than the .cpp
file alone.
Make sure you open the whole project or solution (File/Open/Project
- .sln
, .vcxproj
, .vcproj
). Double clicking on a .cpp
file will open that file only.
Then you should be able to build the project (or hit Ctrl-F5).
To be more precise, open the file that ends in .sln or in .vcxproj, they are the project file that instruct VS how to build your program and what files it needs –
Crossopterygian
I faced this problem suddenly in vs 2022 in one of my projects c#. When I opened other project it looks ok and the build menu is available.
When inspecting the project, I found by accident that the project is opened as folder (open folder). I closed the project then select 'open project or Solution' and every thing is ok.
So the root issue is that project is opened as folder.
Hello @Atalanta could you take a look to this question please? I've some difficulties to open the project because there isn't a sln or other files recognized by VS as a project. #77141323 –
Ingate
Hello @GennaroArguzzi, I answered the question here. Let me know if this can resolve your issue –
Atalanta
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