This chapter begins with our building a few command line, DOS-like console apps. We'll start with a trivial console app to demonstrate the Microsoft Visual Studio user interface, which Visual J Plus Plus shares with the other Visual Studio 6 languages. From there, we'll progress to other console apps that demonstrate additional aspects of the Visual J Plus Plus language.

For now, we'll stick with generic, nonwindowed, platform-independent apps. will begin our ascent of the WFC learning curve.