Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will not compile, load/create files, or recognize the iostream?

Question

I have been attempting to run Visual Studio 2010 on my laptop (runs Windows 7 Home Premium) and has all updates, yet, to my dismay, VS2010 still does not run correctly after continually trying to reinstall and alter permissions.

I literally went into each key on my computer that had a conflict with VS2010 and edited the permissions for hours, but I VS2010 fails to create projects.

If I load a project I have saved and compiled elsewhere, it loads but not without giving me this error:

The 'Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.BootstrapPackage.BootstrapPackage, Microsoft.Data.Entitity.Design.BootstrapPackage, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' package did not load correctly.

The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension.

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If I attempt to compile after disregarding this fatal error:

1>finProjCode.cpp(5): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'iostream': No such file or directory

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Furthermore, if I reset the settings for import/export, then select Visual C++ Development Settings, I get the following errors:

The 'Visual Studio Tools for Office Project Client Package for Excel' package did not load correctly.

Followed by this error:

The 'Visual Studio Tools for Office Project Client Package for Word' package did not load correctly.

And then this error again :

The 'Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.BootstrapPackage.BootstrapPackage, Microsoft.Data.Entitity.Design.BootstrapPackage, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' package did not load correctly.

Followed by:

The 'Microsoft.Data.Entity.Design.Package.MicrosoftDataEntityDesignPackage, Microsoft.Data.Entitity.Design.Package, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' package did not load correctly.

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Yet after all of that, it tells me that the settings were successfully reset to Visual C++ Development Settings...

I am literally going insane from how many times I have reinstalled, manually edited each key's permission on my computer, and fiddled with this program while trying to do a final project for tomorrow, which I have been trying to type up on VS2010 for a few months now, asking for help on multiple sites, etc.

I am hoping I will get the answer(s) I need from here, if any, and I thank any and all who take the time to look and help!

Sincerely,

Justin

Answer 1

1>finProjCode.cpp(5): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'iostream': No such file or directory

From this I can see that either you are missing some files/libraries etc. Have you tried the uninstalling your current vs with a Uninstall application because sometimes windows inbuilt uninstaller will create some problems.

So do the following: 1)Uninstall your current vs 2)Install the express version 3)Tell me if you get the same errors