hi everyone, I have just installed Visual Studio .net, and typed in a basic program (see below) using cout, when I run my program however, I get a blank box with nothing in it! where did my string go?? #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello, World!" << endl; return 0; } -- where did my cout go?! thanks for the help!

I'm sure that what you get is a console window that pops up and disappears so fast that you can't see what's in it. When you run a console program from the IDE, it opens a console box for the program to run in and the console box closes as soon as the program is done. If you were to run your program from a command line, you'd see the output. Another option is to add an input line (fgets(), getchar(), etc) after the cout. This will cause the program to stop for some input, so you see the output. Be sure to come back and let us know if our suggestions helped!

thanks for the reply! that was indeed what I was seeing, I'll try the inclusion of that code asap. i'll post as soon as I try it -- Sabre p.s. -- I never noticed this in prior versions of VS? ... ohh well I spent more time with VB..Thanks again!

"p.s. -- I never noticed this in prior versions of VS?" Yes. I normally included stdlib.h and placed a system("PAUSE") in my code, but that seems to be frowned upon due to portability, etc.