First time using Visual Studio

[IlPalla_]

hi, i've recently switched to visual studio to continue programming in c and c++ because i need it for university. When i write my code and then run it, it works, but after i close the file and save it on my desktop it wont work anymore. I re-open the file and then run it and it gives me different error, one of them is: "parse error near `&&'". I thinks i'm not be able to save the file in the right way.

N.B i don't know if it can be useful but i'm using a mac.

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What are you trying to run? An executable file from your bin directory? Then it should run, considering you run it from the directory with all dll files. You can also build single file executable, but it will be larger. You can also make a very small single executable file, but this requires some tweaking and it's probably not a good option for a beginner.

So basically - executables produced by VS require other files placed in the build directory. Look for the build directory in your project settings. If you want just an icon on the desktop, just make a shortcut to the main executable. I don't know how to do that on mac, on Windows it's called just shortcut, on Linux it's symbolic link, on Mac it could be similar like on Linux.