Visual Studio 2008 usability question

[Tripredacus]

I am following a document that has you create 2 C++ applications in Visual Studio, but the document appears to have been written by more than one person and edited together. The first program says to use Visual Studio 2008 Professional (I have Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition) and I had no problem making it. Other than having to redo all the settings when I switched from Debug to Release build.

The second program looks to be a lot simpler, but goes through different steps than the first. It starts by saying to open Visual C++ 2008 instead of Visual Studio 2008. Some of the other directions are also not possible for me to do, or I do not know how to relate them to the version I have installed. Here are some examples of things that are in the instructions that do not work.

- Press Alt+F7 to open the Applications Property page = this either does nothing or sets focus on the properties box in the lower right.

- After adding a resource file it says to switch to Resource View, which it does but the entire pane for that section is blank. It says to expand nodes and what nots, but I do not see a tree view of anything there.

There are a couple other things and I am sure that it is possible to figure this out but I do not have a lot of VS experience. I will try to get some in-person help later today but figured I would throw this question out there anyways.

[MagicAndre1981]

I have VS2008 Prof here. What is your question now? Maybe I can help you.

[Tripredacus]

Well I ended up building the app without doing the things that the tutorial wanted me to, such as setting a custom icon and entering the versioning info.