Thanks for a really great learning tool. I've been going through the examples with Visual Studio 2017, Visual D, and 64 bit LDC and so far everything has been working really well. The only bit of confusion for me so far was that VS doesn't like the .res files, my solution is simply not to download them and let VS compile the .rc file by itself.
If I may make a suggestion, please include a port of the generated C++ code supplied by Visual Studio when you create a new C++ Windows Desktop Application. I imagine it would be similar to Petzold's MenuDemo.