Well I got a problem... I recently started learning C++. Anyway I us Visual C++. Can anyone give me step-by-step instruction on what to do to make a program run?? Here is what I do:

Open Visual C++
>Click on the page (aka new text file)
>write in some code, here is a simple example:

#include
#include

int main(int nArg, char* pszArgs[])

{
cout Then I go file > Save As> call it something and add .cpp to the end
>Build > Build (then fix the error's if any)
>build > execute

Now that usually works and what ever the program is it will work normally in Visual... But once I got to where I saved the file and open the file (the compiled code) it automatically closes at the last step. for example the simple hello code would closes right away and I wouldn’t see nothing. Or a code that ask for 2 number and add em both together would close right after both the 2 number would be entered....

What am I doing wrong??? I'm pretty sure the code is right cause it runs perfectly in MS Visual.

There is really no incentive for windooze to keep the app open if it's done all of it's processing. I'm kind of surprised a windows app would close out on its own, but that's typical of a dos console app.

Try adding

getch(); or
while(!kbhit());

After your last cout statments, but before your code terminates. I *think* they
re defined in conio.h in ms visual c++.

Also try

#include "stdlib.h"

(replace " with greater then and " with less then)

system("PAUSE");