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• SOHI noob programmer questions:)

  Hey guys Im new to programming and am teaching myself c++ with the visual c++.net express edition. I finally figured out how to build(compile) and run a simple program but now I have a new question. I click on start new project. then make my source file and name it. then i input a simple program, build and run it. now i click on add new source file and change the program around a little and when i try to build and run it, it wants to link with t ...Show All

• Nils Andreas Svee how to burn dvd using vc++

  hi!everyone! i am developing an windows application to burn dvd using vc++.the os is windows 2000.what can i do is there any api i can use is it hard if it is ,what is the hardest part You probably want to check out the Win32 discussion boards as they will have more information about the APIs you need to use to do this kind of thing. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/topic.aspx url=/MSDN-FILES/028/201/015/topic.xml to see the ...Show All

• ShikhaVaid error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'PCH creation point'

  I am attempting to port a simple c++ project to MS Visual Studio 6. All my C++ programs give me the error error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'PCH creation point' These programs all compile fine in Borland C++. How can I fix this. PCH stands for pre-compiled-header. The compiler still seems to be looking for a pre-compiled header. Perhaps you have an stdafx.h in the project If so, try #includi ...Show All

• ankur mitra Using WinHelp in Visual C++ Studio 2005

  I am trying to port some old Borland code to Visual C++ 2005. I have a help button that is supposed to open a help file. I have a MyHelp.hlp file and a MyHelp.cnt file. According to the MSDN Help (and the instructions in my help file development program), the way to do this in Visual C++ is by using the WinHelp() function, defined in windows.h file. Unfortunately, this file seems to no longer exist in the 2005 version of Visual Studio (I se ...Show All

• Giftednewt Changed the COM signatures....using ildasm.....

  Hi, I have a .exe COM which I used in .NET but some signatures got changed....so I opened it with ildasm and changed the signatures so that it should return something from the function....This is the error I'm getting now.... The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x79e8aff6, on thread 0xb4. The error code is 0xc0000005. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of us ...Show All

• gsquaredb Dialog Editor -> Add Variable - Control Id field is blank

  I am extremely fed up with the resource editor in VS2005.  Not only does it regularly crash VS2005 (usually when adding a new dialog), I am now having problems adding a variable from the dialog editor to an associated class. My Setup in my solution: - I have a resource only dll that contains only the resources and not the code behind it.  In other words it basically only has Resource.rc file and Resource.h file. - Another proj ...Show All

• booga_boy Do I need Visual C ++ Express Ed. Beta 2???

  I have just started to learn Visual C++ and I found a tutorial on microsoft's website for beginning C++, but it states that I need the Visual Studio.Net Beta 2.  I found a Visual C++ Express Edition Beta 2 on microsoft's site.  Which one do I need   Do I need any of them   If I do need it, will this cause me to have problems following along in a beginner C++ book I ordered Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, ...Show All

• tps100 Getting memory(Kb) allocated by a process

  Please!!! I'm tryng to get the amount of memory allocated by a process. I have the HANDLE of process, and actually a discovered a function wich returns information about pages "GetProcessMemoryInfo" defined in "psapi.h", but I don't know how to get the amount of memory (in Kb) allocated for this process. How can I get this information Thanks in advance! Sorry but I don't understand your question. The documen ...Show All

• leo1 C++/CLI confusion about % vs. ^

  Just a little confusion I am hoping someone can help clear up... I have a method passing in a handle to a Point structure to which I make changes to X and Y values. On return to the caller I find that the Point values are no different. The declareation is Point ^pPt Now if I instead use Point% pPt for passing a reference then any change to pPt.X or pPt.Y works. I thought I could treat Point ^pPt similar to a pointer where changes to pPt->X, p ...Show All

• StaceyG65 zipping a project

  I have Windows XP and I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express beta version and I created a Win32Console application project with 2 driver files and a header file. It compiles and runs perfectly. In windows explorer, I right clicked on the project folder and selected send to compressed (zipped folder). When I open the zipped folder and click on the project, it does open but when I click on any of the files in the solution explorer, I get this error: ...Show All

• Thomas K Knudsen How to deploy a package developed using VC2005 and VC2003 ?

  To make a third party dll compatible with an application developed under VC2005 (managed code), I had to create a wrapper dll using VC2003. The application works well on the development computer with both VC2003 and VC2005 installed. I copied the wrapper dll(VC2003) and the third party dll to a new computer with only VC2005 installed. The application compiled and linked without any error. When I tried to run it, it reported a few dlls missing ...Show All

• Brian Mathis How to change paper size while printing

  Hello everyone, I'm trying to print a couple of pages using the MFC platform of CView, but while printing I want to change the paper size from landscape to portrait. I now override the following functions : - OnPreparePrinting       Here I set the papersize to landscape using the following code (from MSDN)        PRINTDLG pd;       pd.lStructSize=(DWORD) sizeof ...Show All

• cada0310 Question about CString::find()

  I am currently using CString::find() to find keywords in a .ini file so as to extract the line of info after the keyword with getline(). However i am facing a weird problem. This is the format of my .ini file: alpha C:\\workfiles\\alphaLoop beta C:\\workfiles\\betaLoop delta C:\\workfiles\\deltaLoop This is the code in question:  ifstream iFile;  CString mArr;  char temp[100];  int curPos;     iFile.open(abc.in ...Show All

• mgagan HI there I FIND a BUGS In VC6 .. and i think its soo big that One should never Use VC for any development

  hi there. i am a computer engineer and recentlly i was working in VC and i find out that it has bugs .. and most shocking was VC compiler can't able to give correct answere if we increment two variables togather .... :| i don't know what to say ..... what ever ok here is the code ... the two variable iarrayCounter and ino are of int type and they increment at the same time but give different value . but if just one put ino on the same line ...Show All

• Jartai How to do copying files?

  Hi, I am writing an MFC program that can copy files (let's say: *.chm) from one directory to another by using API. Any idea Thanks. vcboy Thanks for your answer. I like to run the follwing command. hh.exe -decompile C:\Decompiledhelp C:\Help\test.chm if so, "cmd.exe" will be included in argv[] or can I use "hh.exe " instead of "cmd.exe" Thanks. ...Show All