Donna, thanks for posting to the newsgroups. It sounds like you're having setup issues. I would try reinstalling visual studio and if that doesn't work, call product support. As for where the .exe output files, by default they are placed in sub-directories of your project location. For debug builds, this sub-directory is Debug and for release build it is called Release. You can change these with configuration properties (right-click on project node in solution explorer, choose properties, move expand Configuration Properties, choose general settings should now be in property page

Jackson Davi
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