C++ visual studio

Question

I am currently running windows vista and wanted visual studio for c++ coding. Because I am restricted by vista, I can only get vs 2010 :P. Unfortunately, when I try the sample code in vs it is not running and says there were build errors. I was wondering if maybe the code is not supported in the older versions of vs. Thanks in advance - Jack

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout << "Hello world!";
return 0;
}

Answer 1

this code should run in all versions of visual studio, but i urge you to switch to something else you are missing out on c++11,c++14 and c++17, which brought major changes to c++, you could just dualboot linux and use gcc or clang with eclipse and could get all of those versions of c++ and experimental features or use mingw or something similar on windows.
this is a nice tutorial to get code::blocks and gcc 7 on windows
https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/11/22/install-codeblocks-gcc-windows/
did you maybe create a visual c++ .net project instead of a c++ project?