I simplified the code to this and still got the error.

#include <iostream>

using std::cout;

int main(){

cout << "Hello world!";

I just started using MS Visual C++ express to brush up on C\C++

I wrote one little sample program and it ran successfully, then every time after that i kept getting this debug assertion failed...

Hi all. I'm getting back into programming and want to brush up so I was wondering if anyone has a reccomendation of a compiler I can download for free that will work for the vista64 OS.

Thanks