cout not working before cin in visual studio community C++

Question

this code gives me error:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;
int main()
 {
    string name;
    cout << "enter your name: "<<endl;
    cin >> name;
    cout << name << endl;
    return 0;
 }

the error is: Error LNK1104 cannot open file 'c:\\users\\payman\\documents\\visual studio 2015\\Projects\\ConsoleApplication2\\Debug\\ConsoleApplication2.exe'

but if I comment out first cout statement it works. don't understand why.

Answer 1

Your program is still running and so the file is locked. This has absolutely nothing to do with the code.