To be more precise, when I used eclipse for java, every time I typed it would check for errors. For example, if I typed a line and forgot a semi-colon, eclipse underlined the area in red and gave me an error, same with misspellings, variable names that have not been defined, etc, etc, etc.
I’m now using Visual Studio 2008 (as the teacher requires it for C++) and I was wondering if there is a way to have it do the same as eclipse does? This feature is really handy and cuts my coding time in nearly a third as I don’t have to backtrack near as much.
Thanks in advance for the heads up!
PS: Sorry if it’s not called “auto-compile”, was the only descriptive term I could think of that made a remote amount of sense!
No, there is not support for full background compilation, but it will try to check your syntax for you, although it’s not great at it. Visual Studio 2010 does a better job at catching errors before compile time, but it’s not exactly something to rely on. C++ is a much, much more complex language than Java…