I figured out my problem, and, as I suspected, I'm stupid. The programs were in fact finishing their work and blipping off, before I could see what they were up to. I added a little line of code that just waits for one hundred characters of input to each of my projects, and all of them worked as expected.

I've moved on to more complicated stuff, but now, I'm having trouble comprehending what all of it means. I can sit and type it out, but I don't really know what it's doing. So, I've tried to slow down a bit, digest the stuff I've bitten off so far, then move on.

A new computer seems to be in my near future. Visual Studio takes forever to load, and I'm not sure if it's my computer, or the program. I also can't run Diablo 3, which, clearly, needs to change.

As always, thanks! -Blair.