simple program not compiling

[Jopa1351]

I installed visual studio 2015
I generated an empy win32 c++ project
It is exactly as this:
#include <string>

int main()
{
return 0;
}
In compilation it generates c2275 illegal use of type
As expression
So what is the problem?

[cire]

The complete error message generated would be more helpful than the portion of one you've supplied.

[AcarX]

A wild guess but, if you named your file 'main.c' it may cause issues with the header you included since string is a part of C++.

[orangepeel367]

Try using an empty project rather than an Win32 project. I think Win32 is tied to the Visual C++ side of things.