How to tell emacs to open .h file in C++ mode?

Question

What lines should I add to my _emacs (on Windows) file to have it open .h files in C++ mode? The default is C mode.

Answer 1

I could swear I saw this question answered appropriately already? Weird.

You want this:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.h\\'" . c++-mode))