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• jmparks XML Documentation Comments

  In new development I've selected to use .NET 2005 and of its features the one leveraged most in moving old code is the XML Commenting from which I hope to product documentation. I've found a problem on the C++/CLI side that I hope someone can help with -- whenever I have a method with a parameter such as array<char> ^ the documenting for that method does not display in Object Browser. As an example of this problem add the ...Show All

• LJ_1102 Can C++ develop web-based applications?

  Hi, All New to C++ programming. and have put resource in C++ and VC books and time learning it. But now I was told that C++ can not develop web based apllications. Is this true or some extensions of C++ can go around this limit I need develop a web-based database, so the users can input company names, location, phone numbers. etc. and the users can have a full text search on this database. Do I have to learn C# and and SQL to do this ...Show All

• BobN Property Sheets - A problem

  Compiler: Visual Studio.NET 2002 Hi everyone, I am having trouble teaching myself Property Sheets. I thought I grasped the ideas but I get a 'First-chance exception' in the Output window when debugging. I do not think I am doing anything special, my code is: CPropertySheet propsheet(_T("Property Sheet")); MyPage pageFirst; // derived from CPropertyPage MyPage2 pageSecond; // derived from CPropertyPage propsheet.AddPage(& ...Show All

• Alan Cameron Wills -MSFT disable manifest stuff?

  is it possible to diable the manifest stuff so i can run my application on another computer with out .net. So just my exe and a bunch of dll's if they are needed. I've found some threads that discuss copying manifest files and renaming them and shit, but that really sucks, and doesnt even work for me. I cant manage to get a simple printf("hello"); working on another machine! so i've tried a release build using the default project from the projec ...Show All

• Mark Dormer COM Tutorial?

  I need to create a COM object that will be multithreaded using Visual Studio 2003. Can anyone recommend and good tutorials on doing this I am attempting to follow this tutorial but I am stuck trying to add the new ATL object. The tutorial shows how to do this with Visual Studio 6, is there an add ATL option in Visual Studio 2003 You can do this by going to the Project Menu ...Show All

• JoeGilkey Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005 VC debugger does not handle opaque type inspection correctly, a regression from VC 6

  I believe I have found a bug in the VS 2003/2005 debugger. When you compile the below C code and step into the create_two or function_two routines, the debugger gets the opaque type incorrect. Visual C 6 did not suffer from this problem. It appears that the debugger IDE binds the first struct definition to the opaque type across all files, but this is incorrect. Struct definitions are scoped on a per file basis. NOTE: The source can be down ...Show All

• puwa "Correct" Workerthread Termination

  Hello, I have used worker threads for a long while and yet always had and still have problems with the "correct" way such threads should be killed for premature termination. They may have files open, are in the process of allocating global memory or doing any number of other things. The closest I got to "correct" is to signal the worker thread through it's priority if it's services are not required anymore for terminati ...Show All

• S Dano Question about C++ char Pointer

    When I use VC++ 6.0(with SP5.0) like this:   char temp[2];   memset(temp,0,sizeof(temp));   strcpy(temp,"This is a test\0");   MessageBox(0,temp,temp,MB_OK);   The result in temp[2] is "This is a test".There is only two bytes of memory,why can copy more than 2 bytes char Very thank you Chris.But both strcpy() and memcpy() have this problem,and I copy ...Show All

• Jason Presley include file not found--in only one file of the project -- Visual Studio 2005

  I am using Visual Studio 2005 for a mixed C++/C# solution, which contains one C++ project for access to an unmanaged API provided as header files and a .LIB file. In my C++ project, I have two files which do #include <global.h> , a .cpp file containing code, and a .h file with declarations for the .cpp file. Both files are in the same project, and have the same path for include files, and use the exact same include files in the same order ...Show All

• Mebbage How to open webpage

  Hey i have one problem. I try to open internet explorer windows with www adres for example www.microsoft.com . I want that when i click on button. And the seccond question how to do that but when i want to open not a IE but a software on m computer like test.exe. Thanks for answer and help me Thanks. Since you are writing a managed app, you might as well use System::Diagn ...Show All

• Sweetlou DLL missing

  I wrote a simple hello world program and gives me error when i try to run the application.. "the procedure entry point _invoke_watson cound not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR80D.dll" -mic It says it did load msvcr80d.dll, but still -----------------from output window----------------- 'testapp1.exe': Loaded 'D:\Debug\testapp1.exe', Symbols loaded. 'testapp1.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll', Exports loaded. ' ...Show All

• ElifOn - MSFT simple WinApi programm

  Hi, Well, MY PROGRAMM: Winnie.cpp //------------------------------------ // winnie.cpp // (c) Bartosz Milewski, 1995 //------------------------------------ #include "winnie.h" // This is the entry point of every Windows program int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInst, char * cmdParam, int cmdShow) { char className [] = "Winnie" ; // Define a Window Class and register it under the name "Winnie" W ...Show All

• Charles Caruana How to Create a .dll to be used in other Projects

  Hello Everyone, I created a project Under Win 32 and even tried MFC dll to use in other code....I have a C# code, when I try to add that .dll as a refrence that its not a valid assembly nor COM....How can I create a dlll to use under my C# project... Thanks, Harsimrat Since you are writing a managed class, use an IntPtr where you are currently using a HANDLE. And when you want to convert that to a ...Show All

• phrozensnow Automatic closing of command window

  I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to VC++ been trying to pick it up over the past few days through some interesting tutorials. Anyways....my problem should (hopefully) be a very simple one. Im trying out a couple of simple programs of the HelloWorld flavour (you know, the basics) and I'm compiling them through VIsual Studio 2005. The problem is that post compilation the command window just auto closes (thats command as in command.exe or cmd.exe ...Show All

• Premspace Help On A Tricky Console Application

  I Am Creating a Console Application (and/or) A Form That Can Achieve the Following Things. I need it to respond to a Key Press while it is not the active window, and I need it to write directly to the screen for a few seconds. To clear things up, I want to have a full screen window open, be able to press page up and page down to change a value that will be printed directly to the screen for a few seconds. Then I can press print screen and it wil ...Show All