First Time User - What am I doing wrong?

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So I'm trying to understand how to use OpenCV. I'm using:

• Windows10 (64bit)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 (ver 14.0.23107.0 D14REL) Note: They only offer the 32bit version of this.
• OpenCV for Windows 3.0.0 precompiled

Heres my program, copied from this video tutorial from Kyle Hounslow entitled OpenCV (All Versions) - Easy Installation Guide and Sample Project -- VS 2010 C++

//#include<opencv\cv.h>   // couldn't get this one VideoCapture class to function with this.
#include<opencv\highgui.h>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>

using namespace cv;

int main() {
    Mat image;          //Create Matrix to store image
    VideoCapture cap;          //initialize capture
    cap.open(0);
    namedWindow("window", 1);          //create window to show image
    while (1) {
        cap >> image;          //copy webcam stream to image
        imshow("window", image);          //print image to screen
        waitKey(33);          //delay 33ms
    }
    return 0;
}

The linker tools are using the libraries @ C:\opencv_3_0_0\build\x86\vc12\staticlib (Its not clear on which of the six directories I should be using, vc12 or vc11, bin, lib or staticlib. I'm looking at a whole lot of errors.

Note: I've tried using Cmake and the latest version of github's opencv library from https://github.com/Itseez/opencv . I can build both 32 debug and 32 release libraries up fine, but when I do that a whole lot of tools (which should be in the directory C:\opencv_3_0_0\build\include\opencv2) are missing. It looks like they aren't there in the github repository at all. (What's up with that?)

Anybody know how to use current tools (win10 & visual studio) to run opencv?

Note: I'm looking at qty: 500 errors, generally unresolved external symbol too many to list here...

Update: So I'm figuring out that using the pre-configured library with my version of Visual Library is out. So I'm looking again at the Cmake version I built up from the Github version. Not sure what I was thinking before, in my Cmake generated "mybuild" directory, I do see all the classes and headers I missed before. Cmake created the directories C:\opencv_git\mybuild\install\x86\vc14... and I can see the bin and lib and samples and staticlib directories there.

Unfortunately I'm seeing very few .lib files and a whole lot of .exe files Was that something I did wrong with my Cmake setup? Or perhaps a new feature of the Windows compiler tools? Are .exe files the new .lib files?