Cannot compile program in VC++ 2010 Express in Windows 8

Question

Hi Microsoft Team,
I was using VC++ 2010 express edition on Windows 7. Recently i purchased Windows 8 Dell Machine and installed VC++ 2010 express edition on same.
To my disappointment i am not able to compile a plain C Code in VC++.
Please let me know what is work around for this ;
regards
Sobin

Answer 1

Hi 
Sorry for that !! :(
I will give complete info please help.
I am a fan of Visual C++ 2010, coz of simplicity in debugging. I have created simple win 32 console project and created a .c file
Please find the screen shot attached.
I wrote simple C "Hello world program" 
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
printf("Hello world");
return 0;
But when i do build Debug -> Build Solution. i am getting below messages.
1>------ Build started: Project: sobincode, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018: The "CL" task failed unexpectedly.
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities.FileTracker' threw an exception. ---> System.NullReferenceException:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.FileTracker..cctor()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.CL.ComputeOutOfDateSources()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.TrackedVCToolTask.SkipTaskExecution()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.ToolTask.Execute()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.TrackedVCToolTask.Execute()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__20.MoveNext
I didnt get this error when i was using windows 7. Does it mean that Visual Studio is not supported in Windows 8
Please help in resolving this issue so that i can get my old sweet VC++ 2010 ":)
regards
Sobin