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Asked: 2026-05-16T23:10:07+00:00

I’ve just recently started working with Visual Studio this summer, primarily on CUDA and

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I’ve just recently started working with Visual Studio this summer, primarily on CUDA and OpenCV related projects. Prior to this, I had been doing my development on Linux for CUDA using Makefiles and the common.mk makefile from NVIDIA.

So my question is as follows: I’ve not been able to figure out for the life of me what the difference between some of the different project templates are. I know that I’ve had to use “Empty Project” from the general tab of the Visual C++ options, but that’s more trial and error, rather than actually knowing what is going on…

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  1. Editorial Team

    A Win32 project is used if you want to end up with a DLL or a Win32 application usually using the bare WinAPI. A common language runtime (CLR) project is used to create C++/CLI project, i.e. to use C++/CLI to target the .NET platform.

    The main difference between projects is what Visual Studio comes up with in terms of pre-created files. A windowed Win32 application for example (what you get when you choose Win32 project, but not a DLL) is created with a file for resources (menus, accelerators, icons etc.) and some default code to create and register a window class and to instantiate this window.

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