If you want to configure VS Code for Microsoft C++ and make sure that its compiler is working. Working solutions have been mentioned in this post.

How to Compile C With Notepad. Though you can write "C" code in Notepad, you must have a C compiler, such as the compiler included with the Microsoft Visual Studio development suite, to compile ...

For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.