Visual Studio .NET C++ Runtime problem

[ayousuf]

Hello,

My Visual Studio .NET C++ keeps getting this wierd runtime error. Everytime I try to type the character '<' in the cout statement, this runtime error pops up: this application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way

And then Visual C++ just shuts down. Also, I have cout statements everywhere... it is only at this one location that this happens and i don't know why. Any idea on how I can resolve this issue?

Thanks!

[jonnin]

the message means you tripped a "terminate" statement (ends the program gracefully on a very bad error, sort of like the modern "exit(0)" if you know about that tool).

You are saying that this line
cout << '<';
will crash your program?
If this is not the problem (check it, put this on a line by itself and see!) then post the line that is giveing you troubles along with the types of anything else involved.

[Danny]

Bes to post the actual code and the surrounding lines.

[it career]

Looks like it got infected, unistall and reinstall from your Visual Studio CD.