How to configure Visual Studio to use Powerbuilder code

Question

I am looking for the best way to set up a project in Visual Studio 2022 to create/modify/run/debug an existing Powerbuilder application.

Powerbuilder organizes things in "pbl"s, which ,to me, are a form of a directory; inside the "pbl" you could have user objects, data-windows, etc.

What type of set up would you use in Visual Studio to replicate this?

I have set up an empty C++ project now.

One of the goals of this project is to determine how much of the Powerbuilder C++ code can be ported to Rust; we are looking to use a more memory safe programming language.

My Visual Studio set up is configured to use CMake and CLang; I hope to use C2Rust to convert, as best as possible (but not always 100%) . I realize that some code will have to be rewritten due to the language differences.

Ideally, I would like to have a project that uses 2 languages, Rust where possible and C++ for the rest.

Any suggestions / ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

Murray