need help with description

I'm guessing you're using VS .Net.

Click on your project name in Solution Explorer, and then press Alt+Enter. Click Assembly Information on the right, then edit the properties in the dialog.



Ignore my assembly name, it's a project for college.

Nope, Visual C++ projects have a completely different Properties window which doesn't have any options for editing version information.

TylerBrough123, there are two different ways of doing this for a C++ project:

• If you have at least the Professional version of Visual Studio, then right-click on your project name, go to Add -> New Item, and then look around for "Resource File (.rc)." Open the file you just created, right-click in the side pane, and select "Add Resource." Select "Version" and then click "New." It will present you with an editor where you can fill in the version information for your project.
• If you have the Express edition of Visual C++, then add a new Resource file to your project in the same way as above, but instead of opening the resource editor on it (which isn't available in the Express edition), right-click it and select View Code. Paste this into it and fill in your information:
  Code:

  VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
  FILEVERSION 1,0,0,0
  PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0
  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
  #ifdef _DEBUG
  FILEFLAGS 0x1L
  #else
  FILEFLAGS 0x0L
  #endif
  FILEOS 0x40004L
  FILETYPE 0x2L
  FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
  BEGIN
      BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
      BEGIN
          BLOCK "040904b0"
          BEGIN
              VALUE "CompanyName", "TODO: <Company name>"
              VALUE "FileDescription", "TODO: <File description>"
              VALUE "FileVersion", "1.0.0.0"
              VALUE "InternalName", "TODO: <Filename>"
              VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2012"
              VALUE "OriginalFilename", "TODO: <Filename>"
              VALUE "ProductName", "TODO: <Product name>"
              VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.0.0.0"
          END
      END
      BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
      BEGIN
          VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
      END
  END

Rebuild your program and that should hopefully do the trick.