Hi all, I'm working on an interoperability project I have a huge c++ MFC application that supports a plug-in interface I'm developing a plug in in C# sometimes the c++ pass invalid variants to the plug-in interface. between the c++ and c# i have a dll (in c++ ) that instances the objects in ...more >>

I am pretty close to the end of my tether at the moment. I have a project which requires some header fies - which happen to be located in another folder (the relative path from where my sources are is simply (..\include). For the life of me, I can't get VC7 to 'grok' the headers during a ...more >>

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Hello, I have a C++ mixed mode dll ( unmanaged/managed ) that wraps a C# dll to provide some functionality for Microsoft Excel. I am able to compile my solution fine in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and it links and works with no errors. There is a desire at my company to have things checked out...more >>

I am using Managed C++ with a CFormView and a MaskedTextBox and have used MAKE_DELEGATE to sink the LostFocus event of this control. I have other events I've sinked off this control and they all work fine, however, the LostFocus does not fire. I found Scribble online and they do the same t...more >>

Hi, I move from using Outlook Express to Outlook 2003. In Express, when I type the first few letters of a recipients name in the To... field, the whole e-mail address will show up. THe problem is this does not happen in Outlook 2003. What do I have to do to have the recipients names au...more >>

I stumbled upon something which does not make sense "Debug class methods are not automatically suppressed by the managed c++ compiler when the project is build in release mode" Create a a Project (Windiows Forms or Console) in VS2005 using Managed C++ and put a Debug:;Assert(false) or Debu...more >>

I have just started spending serious time in the new studio 2005 C++/CLI arena writing some code assembly that will attache to a much larger C# caode base. In keeping with the highly used namespaces in C#, I have been making sure I organise my interfaces and class into correct namespaces. ....more >>

ok im programming in C, but I'm wondering if there is a way to open a = file like "test.txt" in notepad without having my compiled .exe file on = the same drive as the test.txt file --=20 Eric D. Anderson...more >>

Is there online documentation for my version of link.exe (specifically, command line options available)? If yes, where is it? This is my version: Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 7.1 69462-270-0000007-18536 I found online docs for newer versions. And spent about 10 minutes using MSDN sear...more >>

I am new to the Visual Studio.net platform and I was trying to compile a program that I downloaded from the net and keep getting a ton of errors. It looks like it can't find some of the libraries: The list of errors is below: 'Accelerometer.exe': Loaded 'C:\Downloads\Phidgets\Accelerometer\Ac...more >>

How to reproduce: Create a new Visual C++ CLR Empty Project Add a new C++ with the following: int main (array<System::String^> ^args) { //bool workaround = true; while (true) { try { } catch(...) { } } } Expected result: program runs forever without doing anything Actual r...more >>

We have some C++ code that has a makefile which contains both /W2 and /W3. Due to the way the makefiles are written to be shared across multiple projects, it's not trival to eliminate the duplicate compiler warning-level directives. I'm trying to find a way to silence the following warning ...more >>

Hello all, I wrote a Windows Service in VC.NET 2005 I want to debug the solution. I tried as mentioned in the following link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconintroductiontontserviceapplications.asp But, when I started the service I got a me...more >>

Hi, all I encounted a very strange problem in my App, in debug mode, when I exit my App, it often told me something like "Unhandled exception at ..., user breakpoint", press F5, it skiped this problem. But if I run it without debug, everything is OK, Can anyone help me? Thanks! bo ...more >>

Hello everyone: I am normally not an advocate of increasing the priority of a running process or of a thread but it looks like I have to choice. I'm writing a small app that plays a line-in signal via speakers using low level Digital Audio API and as you can imagine it is quite time criti...more >>

Hey all, I need some help with MFC, I have a multiline CEdit with AUTOVSCROL option. Now... it works though when I do UpdateData the scrollbar goes up t the sta rt and displays the start of the text, I am creating the CEdit dynamically and I tried using LineScroll option to make it go to th...more >>

Hi, I am writing a windows socket program and it contains some threading in it as well. I connect the client to the server and they talk fine until i spawn a thread that takes care of the client while my server tried to accept another connection. while the functon that is being run by ...more >>

I am having problems getting my LinkLabel hyperlink to work properly. Every time I click on it, I get the following exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The requested lookup key was not found in any active activation context at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(P...more >>

I am creating an ActiveX control that should contain a reference to a certain COM interface. I have written before a C# application containing this COM interface but my problem is that it seems not to be possible to add a reference to my COM interface within my vc++ ActiveX controller. Perha...more >>

I'm writing a program in C and I am wondering if there is a way to write = to the registry?=20 For example, just to throw a line out there(cause its the only path I = can think of off the top of my head)...if I wanted to write to = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command" how would I go ...more >>