Mindtraveller Messages: 917 Registered: August 2007 Location: Russia, Moscow rgn.
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First of all, you don't really need a complete Visual studio distribution to use Microsoft compiler. There's a free Visual Studio Express distribution which is light and doesn't install gigabytes of unnecessary software. Just a compiler, libraries, prerequisites and very minified version of IDE (which you won't use as you have TheIDE).
Talking about the problem you posted, did you check Build/Output mode dialog? It must be set Debug info level: Full