please write this funcion in a way that is applicable to visual studios.

Write a function called searchArray( ) which accepts an integer element to be searched for in the array. The function will return the index of the first element that is found to match an element of the array. In simpler words, the function searches an array to see if a particular search item is present in the array. If the value is not found in the array, then the function returns -1. The prototype for this function will be int searchArray(int search_val, int array[ ], int array_size);