Thanks SunDog, that sounds really good.

You guys weren't kidding when you said getting a simple triangle takes a lot of work. I spend 2 hours downloading/compiling the dlls setting up my IDE and copying a 'simple' glObject class, then it crashed on startup with no errors :/

With the above tutorials you shouldn't need to download any DLLs... at least with Windows 8, I didn't have to even modify any of the project properties in VS2012