Why won't visual studio let me run my program?

[oh no its emilio]

C++ noob here. I have searched everywhere for this and found many who had the same problem, but no solutions. What am I doing wrong? I am pulling my hair out!

I have built it and it has no errors. However, when I try to debug it with F5 or ctrl + F5 I get the same error:

"Unable to start program 'c:\users\windows\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Project1\Debug\Project1.ex...

The system cannot find the file specified"

Obviously this file does not exist, and I have no idea how to make it exist. Again, I have tried EVERYTHING. Please help!

  //getinfo.cpp -- input and output
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
using namespace std;

int carrots;

cout << " How many carrots do you have?" << endl;
cin >> carrots;
cout << "Here are two more. ";
carrots = carrots + 2;
// the next line concatenates output
cout << "Now you have " << carrots << " carrots. " << endl;
return 0;
}

[MatthewRock]

I guess it's problem with your visual studio(either it creates a file in other directory then it tries to find it, or it doesn't create file at all).

[j3Rz8vqX]

Hmm, how new are you?

Did you forget to build it first by any chance?

Maybe you forgot to create/open a project first.

Check the location and see if Project1.exe exists.

c:\users\windows\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Project1\Debug\Project1.exe

Although you may not be able to run, can you build it?

[SorinAlex]

Hmmmm im a bit of noob too but have you tried to include stdafx.h

  //getinfo.cpp -- input and output
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
using namespace std;

int carrots;

cout << " How many carrots do you have?" << endl;
cin >> carrots;
cout << "Here are two more. ";
carrots = carrots + 2;
// the next line concatenates output
cout << "Now you have " << carrots << " carrots. " << endl;
return 0;
}

[Cutefriendzoned]

Looks fine to me , and you don't need to include stdafx.h, try to download another compiler , also put this before the return statement so the program won't close after the cin>>carrots; statement

cin.get();
cin.get();

[Stormboy]

If Visual Studio doesn't work out for you, then get this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/12.11/Windows/codeblocks-12.11mingw-setup_user.exe

It is an IDE with a compiler and debugger (MinGW version 4.7.1).