Urgent help -- Visual Studio not working on my computer

[Tatipu]

Okay hi, I have a problem with the error of
"fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'string': No such file or directory"
^ and in my version it underlined "cout", " #include", and "std" <- from using namespace
and a few weeks ago it would compile just fine, no errors.
The problem is, I sent this to my laptop and it works just fine (same visual studio)

So -- is my visual studio on this computer corrupt and I should redownload all over again or what?


Also I tried doing a simply cout and it wouldn't work like:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
cout<< "Hi"<<endl;
}

doesn't work. help ;-;..

[Disch]

Could be a few things:

1) The install was bad
2) Your STL headers got moved/deleted
3) VS's project settings got screwed up and are looking in the wrong directory for the headers


It probably could be fixed without doing a reinstall, but it might be easier to just trash VS and reinstall it fully. Yeah installation takes a while, but you might end up wasting even more time trying to find/fix the problem. And even if you fix it enough to solve this one problem, maybe you didn't fix everything and something else will pop up later.

So yeah, I say reinstall.

[therockon7throw]

Hi

Did you create your project the way it should be created? or you just created a new file, put some code and
tried to run ?

As far as I remember VS code does not look like yours, at least the #include <iostream> and the structure of int main() are not the way they look in VS project