Hi, I am just learning c++ but am having a problem getting started. I have some very basic code, #include int main() { cout "Hey!\n"; return 0; } I go to compile and run it but when I run it I simply get the word hey flashing in a command prompt for fractions of a second, why wont it come up on the screen and stay there. My second question is whether or not it is possible to communicate with people who are on msn. I just want to make something very basic where it shows your online contacts and allows you to talk with them, no emoticons or anything like that just a very basic msn. I know you can communicate with websites and take information from them by making a tcp connection, could someone give me brief information on how you'd connect to msn. Would it be easier to do this is Visual Basics or C++. Thanks

I've solved my first problem, now all I need is the msn question answered. Thanks again

Umm... the MSN thingie is probably out of your league. It would require network programming using sockets and such. If you want to try, start there. Kev

If you want to see what a chat client looks like, try an open source version: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/messenger.html Or check out a PHP connection to MSN. http://ma.tthias.be/openlogin/