I also did another test on top of what I did from the last post. I made a project called Test, put it in the C:\ drive, did the same code listed above, the hello world messagebox, and it suceeeded. Something is really iffy here:

Code:
1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: Test, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>  Main.cpp
1>  Test.vcxproj -> C:\Test\Debug\Test.exe
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========