Executing a Project

After creating a project and writing code, you may want to see the result. To do this, you must execute the application. This would create an executable that you can use on other computers and that you can distribute to other people.

To execute an application, on the main menu, you can click Debug -> Start Without Debugging. Instead of going through the main menu every time, you can add the Start Without Debugging button to a toolbar. To do this, you can right-click any toolbar and click Customize... In the Commands property page of the Customize dialog box, you can click Debug in the Categories click, then drag Start Without Debugging, and drop it on a toolbar. Here is an example:


After adding the button(s), you can click Close. The next time you want to execute an application, you can just click this button.

Practical Learning: Executing an Application

1. To execute the application, on the main menu, click Debug -> Start Without Debugging
2. After viewing the result in a DOS window, press Enter to close it