C++ language documentation

Learn to use C++ and the C++ standard library.

Learn C++ in Visual Studio

Download

• Download Visual Studio for Windows
• Install C/C++ support in Visual Studio
• Download only the command-line build tools

Get Started

• Hello world in Visual Studio with C++
• Create a console calculator in C++

video

• Learn C++ - A general purpose language and library

Training

• Welcome back to C++ - Modern C++
• Samples and the sample archive

What's new for C++ in Visual Studio

What's new

• What's new for C++ in Visual Studio
• C++ conformance improvements

Overview

• Overview of C++ development in Visual Studio
• Supported target platforms
• Help and community resources
• Report a problem or make a suggestion

Use the compiler and tools

Reference

• C/C++ build reference
• Projects and build systems
• Compiler reference
• Linker reference
• Additional build tools
• Errors and warnings

C++ language

Reference

• C++ language reference
• C++ keywords
• C++ operators
• C/C++ preprocessor reference

C++ standard library (STL)

Reference

• C++ standard library overview
• C++ standard library reference by header
• C++ standard library containers
• Iterators
• Algorithms
• Allocators
• Function objects
• iostream programming
• Regular expressions
• File system navigation