Why can't I compile a new program?

[WSinc]

I made a main program with only 2 lines of code, and it does not try to compiie it.

The list of topics under "BUILD" does not include "Compile."

Under "new file" I did tell it it was a free-form source file, and the extension was F90.

So why does it not try to compile it?

This used to be easy to use - why did they change it?

[FortranFan]

How did you create your project?  When creating new projects from scratch, starting with the Visual Studio templates provided by Intel for Fortran generally work well:

[Steven_L_Intel1]

See this from the FAQ: Fortran sources are not compiled when I build my project in Visual Studio