Brand new to VS!

Hello everyone,

I'm brand new to Visual Studio using VS 2005 Team Edition. I've grown up in
a Unix world and have been doing C++ with a text editor on various flavors
of Unix since I was 13. The whole concept of using an IDE and the whole way
that Visual Studio lays out is so foreign to me...

But yet I have a huge software project that I need to port to Windows. Now
in my Unix world, this includes what compiles out to around 100 libraries
and half as many binaries with four main "application" programs.

In the Unix world, in my source tree I have a libs directory where the
sources for each shared library live in their own seperate directory and
I've got a host directory where the sources for each binary live in their
own directory space... Every single directory has a Makefile and from the
top level or any sub directory I can just issue a make command and
everything in the currect directory and all sub directorys is build or
rebuilt... Even though I don't really have the conecpt of a "Project" in
Unix, the entire software build of the world is burried beneath this one
project directory and it's all inclusive in the one project if you will.

That whole concept seems lost in Visual Studio or maybe I'm just missing
something. Obviously getting my above question answer would be good but a
secondary question would be: can someone point me to a Visual Studio C++
project that I can look at for references? I'm looking for a huge project
that includes multiple binaries, libraries, help and resource files;
something that I can use for a guidline or template for creating my new
project in Windows.

Thanks,

-brian


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