Building with VS2010 Express

This is outdated. The VS project files are no-longer shipped, and must be generated, which is quite involved.

There is a hard-mode build guide for VS2015, which you can use instead.

1. Download Visual C++ 2010 Express

2. Install it. All of the default options are fine. It will tick through quite a few steps.

3. Install Github for Windows

4. Clone in Windows from Github.

5. Open project directory from Github for Windows.

6. Double-click putty.sln, the PuTTY Microsoft Visual Studio Solution.

7. Right click "putty" in the tree on the left, and select "Start new instance" from the "Debug" submenu.

8. Tada!

9. Use "quick find" (ctrl+f) in "Entire Solution" to search for "Basic options":

10. Open the result by double-clicking on it in the Find Results pane

11. Change the string however you feel, and run again (as per step 7) to see the result

12. Commit.

13. Change the whitespace settings so you can see what you're doing. PuTTY expects you to use a "tab size" of 8, and an "indent size" of 4. For this reason, it's probably better to set it not to use tabs.