Help for begining just point me a direction

[Sxotty]

edit: if you don't want to bother thats fine I am figuring it out now anyway, I had not read all the comments yet, most of it says "the following is BS"
when I was in high school I became pretty proficient at programming in Borland c++ 3.0. Since then I have not done much, or nothing. Anyway (that was 5 years ago) I could get visual studio.net through college for $20, or $15 I forget so I bought it, and I was wondering where a good site is for teaching a person basically the interface and where everything is hidden.

What is the minimum stuff you get by with and so forth.

In 3.0 I just wrote a program and it worked, now there is like all these different parts, which is no real problem, but when I start a new program the source file has all this crap in it, and I just want someting simple.

When I just delete the source file and put a new one in it says unexpected EOF. anyway any help would be good.

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

What you are looking for really depends on what you are planning to do.
Visual Studio tends to try and make things easier for you by creating an application framework. It will create different ones depending on what kind of application you are telling it to make. (Select new workspace/project and select the type).

In general you will be creating either

A console application (least amount of framework)
A Windows Application
A windows DLL (Don't worry about these just yet)
or a Windows MFC application (Lots of frame work).

The console app is the easiest to get going, but will be a text only kind of affair. If you actually want to do anything more graphical you will need to go for one of the other types.

MFC automates a lot of things for you , and can make some things very easy (I use it for quick dialog box based applications), but can also be a pain in the neck. If you go for MFC stuff you really want a good book, I have one called Windows MFC programming (or something like that) by Jeff Prosise it seems pretty complete.

Decide what you want to do, and then take it from there.

CC

 

[Sxotty]

Thanks CC

I discovered that it was using a precompiled header. So when I made it simple it says

fatal error C1010: unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header directive

Basically I think it is something to make my life easier and is making it harder. I think that using a command line to compile it can turn this option off, but I would rather it was always off.

edit: Actually I can still run the program, even though it says there is a fatal error, weird.

 

[Fruitfrenzy]

In the project settings you can disable the use of precompiled headers. That should sort the problem for you.