Compiling a c program

kso, I've been learning to program recently, and I can't figure out how to compile/debug/link a program using microsoft visual c++. The manual is extremely unclear. Could someone explain it to me? kthx

You need to enable that feature in Windows if you haven't already.  Since normal Windows users generally don't compile programs, you need to set up your OS in a format to do so.  This is enabled at the harddrive level for security, so go into Windows Explorer, right click on your C: drive, and select "Format".  Hit OK and answer yes/OK to all the prompts.  It'll complain about potentially losing stuff, but that's just so they're not liable if non-programmers mess stuff up.  That will put everything in the right format for compiling programs properly, and will activate the right controls in Visual Studio.  Yeah, it's really annoying that VS doesn't do that automatically when you install.