From the course: C++ IDE Overview

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Project layout

Project layout

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Project layout

- [Instructor] It is important to understand where, and how the IDE is storing your projects in the file system. Let's check it out. If you still have a project open, please close it. File, close solution. Let's create a new project. Our defaults are still set. We're going to name this one, averages, and click okay. Now we're going to go to the exercise folder for chapter five lesson five. Do a control A, a control C to copy them all. Going to go back to Visual Studios. We're going to do a right click on the project name. We're going to say open in file explore. So here's our averages cpp, and right here we're going to do a control V to paste the files. We're going to replace the file in the destination. All right, so now we're going to go back to Visual Studio, and we are going to say, debug, start without debugging. This project reads a text file with all of the test scores, and calculates the average score. It needs to be able to open the file, test dash score dot text. Which is in…

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