Well, thank you fredizzimo. I right clicked my project in the solution explorer, and i was looking at all the settings, and I changed something and it worked. What i did was, in the property page, the configuration type was makefile (by default i guess), so i looked at the options for that and there were configuration types for a dll, exe, etc. so i chose exe, hit apply. And i went to build it again, and it worked! i now have the .exe and it works. I had a few syntax errors, but once those were fixed, it worked. woohoo. Thanx again.