I have found I kept getting an error when I modified some of the example code.

The error message was:

C Run-Time Error R6034

Error Message
"An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application’s support team for more information."

After trying a few of the suggested fixes I was starting to give up hope.

Luckly I found a post suggesting  to change the configuration from debug to retail and recompiling.

It worked!