Creating Your First Maya Plug-in in Visual Studio with cmake

Maya C++ Plug-in

http://blog.josephkider.com/2015/08/20/creating-your-first-maya-plug-in-in-visual-studio/

https://beesoverdundee.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/tutorial-making-maya-2015-plugins-with-visual-studio/

Windows Explorer “Command Prompt Here”

So in Windows 7 and 8, all you have to do is hold down the SHIFT key and then right-click on a folder: You'll see an option called Open command window here. This will get you a command prompt with the path to the folder set as the starting 

cmake

https://www.cgcircuit.com/course/compiling-maya-plug-ins-with-cmake

https://github.com/hepcatjk/maya_tutorials/tree/master/Tutorial2-CMake-Hello_World_Example

http://blog.josephkider.com/2015/09/17/using-cmake-to-create-your-first-maya-plug-in/

http://blog.josephkider.com/

http://www.chadvernon.com/blog/maya/compiling-maya-plug-ins-with-cmake/