IDE Commands?

I've learned a good amount of C++ on my own and then took a class in High School on it. It was a breeze but now I have to take a course in college on it. Everything in the course description is familiar and easy, except I don't recall learning anything about "IDE commands."

I just basically want to know what they are. Not really looking for resources on whatever it is or anything.

My guess would be that IDE commands are certain peices of code or other commands that are implemented by the C++ compiler (eg Visual C++). They aren't a standard in the actual C++ programming language and might not work in other compilers. Other commands would be compiler specific that tell the compiler what to do (eg #pragma acting as a preprocessor directive).

The Visual C++ IDE is scriptable through some variant of VB, never tried it.

Geddit? Variant of VB? :p Hehe....ignore me, it's late and I need some bad jokes ;)