## Creating a New Project

The easiest way to analyze your source is to use Understand for C++’s GUI to create a project and specify what source files to parse. The GUI then parses the code and creates an Understand for C++ database that you can browse. This database can be refreshed incrementally from within the GUI, or updated using command line tools.

This section shows how to create a new project using the GUI version of Understand for C++. A project is stored in a Project Database, which has a file extension of .udc.

To create a new project file, follow these steps:

1. Select File->New Project. You will see the New Project window.
2. Browse to the folder where you wish to create the Project Database.
3. Type the name of the project in the File name field. The .udc extension will be provided automatically.
4. Click Open.

This automatically creates an empty project database file and opens the dialogs where you will do most of the preparatory work.

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