I use Visual C++ on Windows 7, and I did a thing like Hello World, and when I build solution it succeeds. However, I cannot find the .exe of the project so I can open my program and see what it does. I have searched everywhere.
Well, then in that case try saving your program to a directory where you know where everything is. If you still can't find the executable, check where your program is saving the compiled result (possibly under options?).
Do you recommend any compilers that work for windows 7?
I'll try to see if it works by reinstalling 2008, but I don't think I can download the 2010 one because it is more than 2GB, and my internet is very slow.
Sigh, it doesn't work because I can't find the icon to open the application and when I try to follow instructions on how to install it, that doesn't work either.
Looks like a corrupted executable to me. Try rebuilding.
Little piece of advice: you do NOT want to hide filename extensions while programming. A coworker once made a stupid mistake with that and wasted thirty minutes debugging a correct program.