I'm using Visual Studio 2010, so technically this seems the best forum to ask my question. If I run a console app from the dos command line, I can redirect the input to come from a text file, which cin will operate on, for example:

app < data.txt

However, I don't like to use the command line, and so am wondering how to redirect input using the Visual Studio property page. Going to Configuration Properties--> C/C++ --> Command Line and typing: < data.txt into the additional options box results in 2 problems, the first being that '<' is not recognized as a valid command, and that the file 'data.txt' is not found. The file is in the same directory as the executable, and I have no problem running the program from the console.

So what do I have to put in the Additional Options box, and where should I put the data file?