Having problems with Microsoft's Visual C++ Express

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  1. Lief Webster

    Lief Webster New Member

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    I've been starting to work through a tutorial for DirectX that I found on the internet, and it starts by teaching basic windows programming, for which it recommends Visual C++ Standard Edition (2005 or later). So I went to download it and ended up getting Visual C++ Express Edition (2008), which looked like the most up-to-date program on the site. Now I've typed in my first windows program to a source file in a new solution, but when I try to build it, I'm given errors. Here's the program:

    Code:
    // include the basic windows header file
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <windowsx.h>
    
    // the WindowProc function prototype
    LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hWnd,
                             UINT message,
                             WPARAM wParam,
                             LPARAM lParam);
    
    // the entry point for any Windows program
    int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                       HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                       LPSTR lpCmdLine,
                       int nCmdShow)
    {
        // the handle for the window, filled by a function
        HWND hWnd;
        // this struct holds information for the window class
        WNDCLASSEX wc;
    
        // clear out the window class for use
        ZeroMemory(&wc, sizeof(WNDCLASSEX));
    
        // fill in the struct with the needed information
        wc.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
        wc.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
        wc.lpfnWndProc = (WNDPROC)WindowProc;
        wc.hInstance = hInstance;
        wc.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
        wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)COLOR_WINDOW;
        wc.lpszClassName = L"WindowClass1";
    
        // register the window class
        RegisterClassEx(&wc);
    
        // create the window and use the result as the handle
        hWnd = CreateWindowEx(NULL,
                              L"WindowClass1",    // name of the window class
                              L"Our First Windowed Program",   // title of the window
                              WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,    // window style
                              300,    // x-position of the window
                              300,    // y-position of the window
                              500,    // width of the window
                              400,    // height of the window
                              NULL,    // we have no parent window, NULL
                              NULL,    // we aren't using menus, NULL
                              hInstance,    // application handle
                              NULL);    // used with multiple windows, NULL
    
        // display the window on the screen
        ShowWindow(hWnd, nCmdShow);
    
        // enter the main loop:
    
        // this struct holds Windows event messages
        MSG msg;
    
        // wait for the next message in the queue, store the result in 'msg'
        while(GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
        {
            // translate keystroke messages into the right format
            TranslateMessage(&msg);
    
            // send the message to the WindowProc function
            DispatchMessage(&msg);
        }
    
        // return this part of the WM_QUIT message to Windows
        return msg.wParam;
    }
    
    // this is the main message handler for the program
    LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
    {
        // sort through and find what code to run for the message given
        switch(message)
        {
            // this message is read when the window is closed
            case WM_DESTROY:
                {
                    // close the application entirely
                    PostQuitMessage(0);
                    return 0;
                } break;
        }
    
        // Handle any messages the switch statement didn't
        return DefWindowProc (hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }
    This code is word-for-word what the tutorial said to type, but the compiler produces these errors:

    Code:
    MSVCRTD.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup
    C:\Documents and Settings\Lauren\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\windows1\Debug\windows1.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
    What am I doing wrong?

    (Also, I had at first tried the code on Dev-C++, but it gave me a few errors I couldn't figure out. Does Dev not do Windows programming as well as other compilers?)
     

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