NEED HELP PLEASE

hello,
everyone i have a very stupid and noob question i downloaded notepad++ plus to test my code but when i go to run he ask me to choose a file i guess i should choose my compiler to be able to excute my file but i don't know how to do that if any help is provided would be really apreciate it !
plus if there any links to download the virtual machine or compiler or anything that need to active this software please let me know
and more thing if there any suggestion for software to use for c++ codes please provide download links or names
thanks for your help in advance
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You can get code::blocks and Mingw: http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26

Or if your on Windows, you can get visual studio: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads
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