Unsuccessfully trying to wrestle MS VS into submission, just to make the unmodified version of Cardread.exe

 MAYBE AN AHA MOMENT AND ROOT CAUSE OF PRIOR FAILURES

I realized that the program was attempting to load the resource for the dialog box but not finding it. I see the RC file, it says it compiled, but it doesn't find it at all or it fails to create the window. All I know is that it silently returns from the call to DialogBox. 

APPLICATION SHOULD WORK PROPERLY PRIOR TO MY FIXES

If I hack up the source code first, I would be debugging not only my code but other issues, such as this one that arose simply trying to build the existing code.