Masm not assembling my win32 program in visual studio - visual-studio

Question

Guys I been trying to asssemble my masm32 file in visual studio but the build fails each time. there isn't an issue with my program as it runs on other machines perfectly well it's only i think a problem with dependecies or sth or me not runnning this asemmbly file on some older windows version I guess but i tried everything peraps you could point me out to what the problem is
here is the output I get when I try to build it
1>------ Build started: Project: Project1, Configuration: Debug|Win32 ------
1> Assembling childWnd.asm...
1>C:\masm32\include\winextra.inc(9722): error A2026: constant expected
1>C:\masm32\include\winextra.inc(9723): error A2026: constant expected
1>C:\Project1\childWnd.asm(80): warning A6004: procedure argument or local not referenced : hPrevInst
1>C:\Project1\childWnd.asm(80): warning A6004: procedure argument or local not referenced : CmdLine
1>C:\Project1\childWnd.asm(80): warning A6004: procedure argument or local not referenced : CmdShow
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\BuildCustomizations\masm.targets(70,5): error MSB3721: The command "ml.exe /c /nologo /Zi /Fo"Debug\childWnd.obj" /W3 /errorReport:prompt /TachildWnd.asm" exited with code 1.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
PS: i did put my project folder inside my masm32 directory and it continues to fail
here is the code for my program
.386
.model flat,stdcall
option casemap:none
WinMain proto :DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD,:DWORD
include \masm32\include\windows.inc
include \masm32\include\user32.inc
include \masm32\include\kernel32.inc
includelib \masm32\lib\user32.lib
includelib \masm32\lib\kernel32.lib
.data
ClassName db "SimpleWinClass",0
AppName db "Our First Window",0
MenuName db "FirstMenu",0
ButtonClassName db "button",0
ButtonText db "My First Button",0
EditClassName db "edit",0
TestString db "Wow! I'm in an edit box now",0
.data?
hInstance HINSTANCE ?
CommandLine LPSTR ?
hwndButton HWND ?
hwndEdit HWND ?
buffer db 512 dup(?) ; buffer to store the text retrieved from the edit box
.const
ButtonID equ 1 ; The control ID of the button control
EditID equ 2 ; The control ID of the edit control
IDM_HELLO equ 1
IDM_CLEAR equ 2
IDM_GETTEXT equ 3
IDM_EXIT equ 4
.code
start:
invoke GetModuleHandle, NULL
mov hInstance,eax
invoke GetCommandLine
mov CommandLine,eax
invoke WinMain, hInstance,NULL,CommandLine, SW_SHOWDEFAULT
invoke ExitProcess,eax
WinMain proc hInst:HINSTANCE,hPrevInst:HINSTANCE,CmdLine:LPSTR,CmdShow:DWORD
LOCAL wc:WNDCLASSEX
LOCAL msg:MSG
LOCAL hwnd:HWND
mov wc.cbSize,SIZEOF WNDCLASSEX
mov wc.style, CS_HREDRAW or CS_VREDRAW
mov wc.lpfnWndProc, OFFSET WndProc
mov wc.cbClsExtra,NULL
mov wc.cbWndExtra,NULL
push hInst
pop wc.hInstance
mov wc.hbrBackground,COLOR_BTNFACE+1
mov wc.lpszMenuName,OFFSET MenuName
mov wc.lpszClassName,OFFSET ClassName
invoke LoadIcon,NULL,IDI_APPLICATION
mov wc.hIcon,eax
mov wc.hIconSm,eax
invoke LoadCursor,NULL,IDC_ARROW
mov wc.hCursor,eax
invoke RegisterClassEx, addr wc
invoke CreateWindowEx,WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,ADDR ClassName, \
ADDR AppName, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,\
CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,\
300,200,NULL,NULL, hInst,NULL
mov hwnd,eax
invoke ShowWindow, hwnd,SW_SHOWNORMAL
invoke UpdateWindow, hwnd
.WHILE TRUE
invoke GetMessage, ADDR msg,NULL,0,0
.BREAK .IF (!eax)
invoke TranslateMessage, ADDR msg
invoke DispatchMessage, ADDR msg
.ENDW
mov eax,msg.wParam
ret
WinMain endp
WndProc proc hWnd:HWND, uMsg:UINT, wParam:WPARAM, lParam:LPARAM
.IF uMsg==WM_DESTROY
invoke PostQuitMessage,NULL
.ELSEIF uMsg==WM_CREATE
invoke CreateWindowEx,WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, ADDR EditClassName,NULL,\
WS_CHILD or WS_VISIBLE or WS_BORDER or ES_LEFT or\
ES_AUTOHSCROLL,\
50,35,200,25,hWnd,8,hInstance,NULL
mov hwndEdit,eax
invoke SetFocus, hwndEdit
invoke CreateWindowEx,NULL, ADDR ButtonClassName,ADDR ButtonText,\
WS_CHILD or WS_VISIBLE or BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON,\
75,70,140,25,hWnd,ButtonID,hInstance,NULL
mov hwndButton,eax
.ELSEIF uMsg==WM_COMMAND
mov eax,wParam
.IF lParam==0
.IF ax==IDM_HELLO
invoke SetWindowText,hwndEdit,ADDR TestString
.ELSEIF ax==IDM_CLEAR
invoke SetWindowText,hwndEdit,NULL
.ELSEIF ax==IDM_GETTEXT
invoke GetWindowText,hwndEdit,ADDR buffer,512
invoke MessageBox,NULL,ADDR buffer,ADDR AppName,MB_OK
.ELSE
invoke DestroyWindow,hWnd
.ENDIF
.ELSE
.IF ax==ButtonID
shr eax,16
.IF ax==BN_CLICKED
invoke SendMessage,hWnd,WM_COMMAND,IDM_GETTEXT,0
.ENDIF
.ENDIF
.ENDIF
.ELSE
invoke DefWindowProc,hWnd,uMsg,wParam,lParam
ret
.ENDIF
xor eax,eax
ret
WndProc endp
end start