Visual Studio compiles but the exe isn't there

Question

Source code that compiles fine on other peoples environments won\'t correctly work in my environment. When I do a rebuild the compile occurs but when visual studio goes to

Answer 1

In the solution properties page, check whether the path you are expecting the exe to be is same as the one specified in Linker -> Output file.

Another obvious mistake could be, check what build configuration you are building. You might be doing a release build and expecting a debug executable file :) I have done this a few times.