Problems following the Windows installation tutorial with 2.4.2

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Yes, to build app inside Visual Studio you can check this tutorial: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/windows_visual_studio_Opencv/windows_visual_studio_Opencv.html#windows-visual-studio-how-to

I'm confronting the same issue as sgranade. In addition to what he describes, the further issue is found in setting the path. The path is supposed to be set to e.g. D:\OpenCV\Build\Install. However, there is no "Install" directory inside the Build directory.

Any further thoughts?

(See: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/windows_install/windows_install.html?highlight=installation#windowssetpathandenviromentvariable)

with all due respect, the tutorials are very lengthy and hard to follow, i think. video intro usually does a much better job. for people who actually needs to look at the tutorials, mostly likely they are not fishing for the advanced/fancier set up, or explanations on how things work. we just want an easy, extremely trimmed-down, step-by-step, dumb guide to start the most basic helloworld first. i just want something that works initially, and maybe that is all i need.

You a right, to set OpenCV environment variable you should use path like this: "D:\OpenCV\Build\<platform_type>\<compiler_type>", e.g. "D:\OpenCV\Build\x64\vc10". Documentation will be improved. If you really need a video with quick installation process, you can submit a feature to code.opencv.org or write new question about this.

Instead of step 3 you can also add PYTHONPATH which points to that path to your system-variables.