With your project open in Visual Studio, go to Project > Export Template... from the main menu. The Export Template Wizard will open.

Choose Project Template as the type of template to be created, and click Next.

Choose the current project to export as a template, and click Next.

Provide a template name, description, icon, and preview image. You can also choose the template output location and decide whether to automatically import the template into Visual Studio. After filling in these details, click Finish.

Open the Property Pages dialog by right-clicking on your project in the Solution Explorer and selecting Properties.

Select Debugging under Configuration Properties in the left-hand column.

Find the Environment field in the right-hand column and enter:

For MATLAB:

PATH=C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2024b\runtime\win64;%PATH%

For MATLAB Runtime:

PATH=C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB Runtime\R2024b\runtime\win64;%PATH%

Click Apply and then OK to close the dialog.

These steps ensure that the environment variable is set every time you run or debug your application in Visual Studio.

Open your terminal or command prompt.

Navigate to the location where you want to create your project and create a new directory.

mkdir MyCppMatlabProject
cd MyCppMatlabProject

Launch Visual Studio Code with the current directory opened.

code .

If you receive an error saying code is not recognized, you may need to add Visual Studio Code to your system PATH or use the full path to the code executable.

You can create new source files directly from the terminal or inside Visual Studio Code.

Configure the IntelliSense engine to pick up MATLAB specific libraries by editing the c_cpp_properties.json file.

To set the includePath setting in your c_cpp_properties.json file, add the paths to the includePath array. Format it as follows:

"includePath": [
    "${workspaceFolder}/**",
    "C:\\Program Files\\MATLAB\\R2024b\\extern\\include",
    "path\\to\\v2\\generic_interface\\header\\file\\directory"
]

 c_cpp_properties.json

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Win32",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**",
                "C:\\Program Files\\MATLAB\\R2024b\\extern\\include",
                "path\\to\\v2\\generic_interface\\header\\file\\directory"
            ],
            "defines": [
                "_DEBUG",
                "UNICODE",
                "_UNICODE"
            ],
            "windowsSdkVersion": "10.0.22621.0",
            "compilerPath": "cl.exe",
            "intelliSenseMode": "windows-msvc-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

Configure the debugger settings by editing the launch.json file and specify the path to the archive file (.ctf file).

To set the CPPSHARED_BASE_CTF_PATH environment variable in your launch.json file, add an entry to the environment array specifying the path to your archive (.ctf file) directory. Format it as follows:

 "environment": [
                {
                    "name": "CPPSHARED_BASE_CTF_PATH",
                    "value": "path\\to\\v2\\generic_interface\\ctf\\file\\directory"
                }
            ]

 launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Windows Debug - MATLAB Compiler SDK C++",
            "type": "cppvsdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/build/Debug/MyCppMatlabProject.exe",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "environment": [
                {
                    "name": "CPPSHARED_BASE_CTF_PATH",
                    "value": "path\\to\\v2\\generic_interface\\ctf\\file\\directory"
                }
            ],
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "externalConsole": true
        }
    ]
}

Press Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P on macOS) to open the Command Palette.

Type CMake: Build and select it from the list.