Visual studio error

[adam2016]

I am getting a very annoying error while trying to compile my code,

everything looks fine but I'm getting an error saying I am forgetting to include a file WHICH I am NOT

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error C1010 unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header. Did you forget to add '#include "stdafx.h"' to your source? ConsoleApplication2 c:\users\user\source\repos\consoleapplication2\consoleapplication2\source.cpp


how can I fix this and why is this happening?

thanks

  #include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <WinSock2.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>



#pragma comment(lib,"ws2_32.lib")

using namespace std;

int main()
{

	cout << "hello" << endl;
	system("pause");
    return 0;
}

[adam2016]

I turned off precompiled headers


Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error C2059 syntax error: '}' ConsoleApplication2 c:\users\user\source\repos\consoleapplication2\consoleapplication2\source.cpp 2

but line 2 is a pre processor directive and not a statement so how am I missing a semi colon and curly brace?

I've only been using visual studio for 30 mins and already I'm not liking it

anybody know whats going wrong?

[Thomas1965]

The easiest is to set the options Precompiled Headers->Precompiled heder to Not Using Precompiled Headers and remove stdafx.h and stdafx.cpp

[adam2016]

hey Thomas I set it to not using precompiled headers and removed stdafx.h

code still gives me an error which is crazy,

how do I remove stdafx.cpp?

thanks

# include <stdlib.h>
# include <WinSock2.h>
# include <iostream>
# include <Windows.h>
# pragma comment(lib,"ws2_32.lib")
using namespace std;

int main()
{

	cout << "hello" << endl;
	system("pause");
    return 0;
}

[adam2016]

Hi Thomas I deleted stdafx.cpp and Source.cpp from the project and it now seems to build and compile

just wondering what is going on how come I needed to do all that just to get a simple project to compile other IDE's such as eclipse and C::B don't seem to need any of that?

thanks

[Thomas1965]

The project templates is VS are more for professionals and not so much for beginners.
All this stdafx stuff with pre-compiled headers makes only sense for big projects, but are a pain in the neck for small test apps.
I usually start with an empty project and add a main.cpp and paste my own code.