Maybe these short tutorials will help

I already checked that one, it only guide us how to make a program ( how to begin to write the code into the editor), not a exe program. I need a guide to make a real exe file.

To be able to create an Exe file in Visual C++ (I hope by your context you are using 6.0) you need to have fairly good knowledge of C++. next an Exe application can be of two types Console based / Graphical User Interface. For console based you can use Win32 Console APllication (as Ancient Dragon has guided you to the tutorial) and code in the ToDo areas for what operation you want to do. Next compile and build the program. This way u can create a console based exe.

For Graphical based exe you have to learn a bit more of MFC before proceeding.

Please revert back to us in case of more clarification.

HAHAHAHA.

What's so "fairly good understanding" about being able to write

and pressing a button or key?

Type all of your code into the visual C++ editor and then press ctrl+shift+b. That builds your project and creates an exe file in the Debug or Release folders of the project folder. You can also do it the clicky way from the Build menu in visual C++. You can also use F5 to build and run in debug mode immediately, or ctrl+F5 to build and run in production mode immediately.

The tutorials that you said weren't helpful describe how to build projects here. But that's probably too much information if all you want is to build simple programs.

Nope -- only need a very basic knowledge of c++ to write console programs with the compiler. But it does take some time for newbes to learn how to use the IDE. How to do that depends on which version of VC++ you are using -- version 6.0 is a lot different than 2005.

In general, the steps to getting MSVC++ 2005 to work should be something along the lines of

- Create a new Solution, using a Win32 Console Project

- Right-Click on the project's name in the solution explorer, choose properties.

- In the Configuration Properties Window, look for the option to disable precompiled headers (Under the C/C++ Configuration properties)

- Get rid of stdafx.h and all that rubbish

- use the simplest possible program to test whether you've set it up correctly (you can tell by whether the program compiles) this one will do
- Hold [CTRL] and press [F5] to compile & run. (Console Window won't auto-close - this is the 'compile without debugging' mode)
- or, [F7] to build it without running

- if you need the .exe file, look in the project's folder on your computer, in Windows Explorer. The .exe file will be named after the solution.

That is what takes developers a lot of time to port programms from one version to another. So atleast a fair amount of knowledge would be necessary in order to know how and what is working inside a program.

Tell me if i'm wrong.

most people would choose to start from scratch when starting development in VC2005 if their previous version was VC6.

Anything developed that long ago that VC6 was current when development was complete will be in dire need for such a major overhaul that complete replacement is a better option.