Visual Studio is not too bad, but it takes some getting used to. In general, Microsoft’s documentation is not very good. For all but the most basic things, I usually do online searches to get answers.
One thing that you should know, is how to change the name of the exe file. If you go to the View menu and choose Project Properties on the bottom, in the General section that it opens to by default, there is a section for Assembly name, which will be the name of the exe file generated when you do a build.