The world seems to need another simple OpenGL example running on Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 using FreeGlut and GLEW. The example is a port of https://github.com/beelsebob/Cocoa-GL-Tutorial, since that was the most simple example I could find. The example also uses source code from the book "Interactive Computer Graphics - A Top-Down Approach with OpenGL" by Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner (Sixth Edition, Addison-Wesley 2012) (source code can be found here: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/BOOK/INTERACTIVE_COMPUTER_GRAPHICS/SIXTH_EDITION/CODE/ ).

I assume that you have FreeGlut and GLEW installed.

http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/ (MSVC version: http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/ )

http://glew.sourceforge.net/

For comments on the source code, please use the following blog post:

http://blog.nobel-joergensen.com/2012/06/25/opengl-3-2-glsl-1-50-a-simple-example-using-visual-studio-2010-freeglut-and-glew/