How to use Visual Studio C Compiler

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2013  I can create a new project  Visual C     but the error I have to come across is that I cannot run the app  Here is the code that I m trying to run on Visual Studio 2013     include  lt iostream gt  using namespace std   int main         cout  lt  lt   Hello World       return 0      I am sure this code would run  and will output hello world  but in Visual Studio it gives me issues  saying       Values cannot be null    Parameter name  solutionDirectory    What am I missing here     Here is an image for this

User · Accepted Answer

In Visual Studio  you can t just open a  cpp file and expect it to run  You must create a project first  or open the  cpp in some existing project   In your case  there is no project  so there is no project to build    Go to File -- gt  New -- gt  Project -- gt  Visual C   -- gt  Win32 Console Application  You can uncheck  create a directory for solution   On the next page  be sure to check  Empty project    Then  You can add  cpp files you created outside the Visual Studio by right clicking in the Solution explorer on folder icon  Source  and Add- Existing Item   Obviously You can create new  cpp this way too  Add --  New   The  cpp file will be created in your project directory   Then you can press ctrl F5 to compile without debugging and can see output on console window

User · Answer

You may be forgetting something  Before  include  lt iostream gt   write  include  lt stdafx h gt  and maybe that will help  Then  when you are done writing  click test  than click output from build  then when it is done processing compiling  press Ctrl F5 to open the Command Prompt and it should have the output and  press any key to continue

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