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Start a new Visual Studio project:

1. From the Visual Studio menu bar select File > New > Project.

2. Select Visual C++ from the Templates list.
3. Select RTX Application from the templates area.
4. This template is a single-page dialog that displays the default project settings and provides optional application and program settings. Specify the following options and libraries to include in your RTX application project:

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• Project Type – Select C++.
• Supported String Convention – Specify Unicode or MultiByte. This determines if the associated pre-processor definitions will be included in the project settings.
• Add additional headers and libraries:
• Microsoft C Runtime Support – add C/C++ Runtime support. Most programs need support for C Runtime functions.

5. Continue editing program settings for this application. Select Provide a program framework to build a basic program framework consisting of source and header files. When Provide a program framework is checked, the RTX Application template inserts into the project C/C++ source files that contain basic program functionality and header files that contain include and define statements.

NOTE:  When Provide a program framework is un-checked, these options are grayed out.

6. Select the Periodic timer thread check-box. This creates a periodic timer function shell, and inserts a code segment into the program framework that creates and sets a periodic timer. The user should supply the timer period, the periodic timer function code, and exception code.
7. Click Finish. This generates the RTX solution and project according to the options you selected.

Modify the new Visual Studio project:

1. Open the new program shell by selecting it from the list of Source Files.

2. Increase the timer period from 500 microseconds to 1 second.

3. Set the test duration to 5 seconds and then display a completion message.

4. Open the RtxSample2Funcsource file and add a line to display status when the TimerHandler is called.

Build and run an RTX executable:

1. Set the Solution Configuration so that the program will be built as an RTSSRelease executable.

2. Select Build Solution from the Build pull-down menu.

3. Run the .rtss executable either by double-clicking on the file name in Explorer or by typing into a command prompt:

rtssrun RtxSample2

Build and run a Windows executable:

The sample program can also be built as a Windows executable as described below.

1. Set the Solution Configuration so that the program will be built as a Windows Debug executable.
2. Select Build Solution from the Build pull-down menu.
3. Run the resulting Windows executable program by double-clicking the file name in Explorer or by typing the full path name into a command prompt.

4. Run the Windows .exe file from within Visual Studio.

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