Some questions and comments about installing the Platform SDK
I'm new to VC++ and programming in general. I'm trying to teach myself how to do this at home with a few books and whatever learning resources I can find online, along with the VC++ Express edition IDE. I have a couple of questions and comments about installing the Platform SDK.
The video I watched on Microsoft's site that I found describing how to install the SDK says: in Tools> Options> Projects and Solutions>VC directories that I should add the path $(Program Files)\Microsoft SDK\Bin and likewise for lib and include
For starters, it installs in the "Microsoft Platform SDK" folder in Program Files and not "Microsoft SDK" and I made the appropriate changes to reflect this, but at first I followed the directions given by the video exactly since I'm new to this and didn't want to foul things up.
If I click the add new file icon on the Options dialog I can drill down through the directories and find the folders that came from the Platform SDK install, however, the resulting path does not use the "$(...)" notation, rather it produces a "C:\" path.
Is this acceptable?
I know this may be a stupid question but I also that these things can be very touchy and I want make sure I give the IDE exactly what it needs to do it's job.
