Just Wondering

I was trying to compile an alternative of "Hello World" and I was wondering,

As I was compiling it, it said there was an error.

The error was that I didn't include "#include stdafx.h" in the beginning of the code.

In the tutorial, it didn't say that was needed. Is that a MVSc++ 2008 feature?

Or do I not need to include it.

IMHO, that's really annoying =_=

Visual studio uses a pre compiled header, "stdafx" by default. It won't compile anything before this header file. If you didn't include it VS is going to spit out and error telling you that it wasn't found.

You can remove the need for this.

In your project properties, go in the C/C++ tab. On the right, the first setting will be "Create/Use precompiled headers", by default, it will be set to "Use Precompiled Header (/Yu)". Change it to "Not Using Precompiled Headers".

Or you could just simply include it. It could come out useful in the long run when dealing with many user defined headers.

lol I have never used the precompile headers
always created blank win32 projects

anyway just get a better AV or just turn it off while compiling