Are you really implying that you never got errors when supposedly writing programs in VB? Either way that is of no consequence. C++ is NOT VB. It is quite challenging. It isn't something that you could stumble through (and i dare say i could stumble through VB). You need a book or a good online tutorial, to at least get the basics and certain programming concepts. I can't pretend to know what VB is like, or your extent of knowledge in it, But really, don't try to jump right in, at least get the basics down.
Edit: As a side note, can i see these compile errors? And if you cant find them give me a screenshot, i'm curious...