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Asked: 2026-06-11T21:39:33+00:00

I have an issue with Visual Studio’s 2012. I am also using Sams Teach

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I have an issue with Visual Studio’s 2012. I am also using “Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a day, 7th edition”.

After using google to find the “best” compilers for C++, Visual Studios seemed to be the tool of choice.

So I downloaded and installed Visual Studios 2012. The very first lesson in the book is (and tells me to run it as a console app by going to File > New > Project >Visual C++ > Win32 > Console Application )

 #include <iostream>

int main()
{
 std::cout << “Hello World!” << std::endl;
 return 0;
}

which doesnt work, at all. it outputs an error message similiar to the following:

1>c:\users\nik\documents\visual studio
2012\projects\consoleapplication4\consoleapplication4\consoleapplication4.cpp(8):
error C2065: ‘“Hello’ : undeclared identifier
1> Generating Code…
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========”

(there is more lines similiar to the first, but its rather long)

However, after googling and watching a video on youtube the following code works (using File > New > Project >Visual C++ > General > Empty Project )

#include <iostream>
#include "conio.h"

using namespace std;

int main() {
cout << "Hello Nik" << endl;
_getch();

return 0;
}

Does Visual Studio’s 2012 have a C++ compiler? or does it just have a visual c++ compiler (if thats even the issue, only reason I think it could be is I can see templates for Visual C++ but none for c++ by itself…) or do I need to download Visual Studio Express to download native c++ ??

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am feeling some-what out of my depth here…

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Besides aphostrophes you may need to disable precompiler headers in project properties.

    They are turned on by default in VS2012. If you are not familiar with precompiled headers turn them off.

    1. Right click on project (not solution)
    2. Click properties.
    3. Expand “Configuration properties”
    4. Expand “C/C++”
    5. Choose “Precompiled headers”
    6. Set “Precompiled header” to “Not Using Precompiled Headers”

    More information about precompiled headers and stdafx.h file at Wikipedia

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