Has anyone tried to use Boost.Filesystem with C++/CLI? I'm trying to get some code that worked correctly in my native application to work on my C++/CLI program. The code is in a header file in a native C++ static library. inline void execute_files(std::string const& dir, std::string const...more >>

HI All, I'm a newbe to ATL. I got stucked with a problem, I have a ATL service exe created sometime back in 1998 using VC++ 6.0 ( or older) which works as expected in Windows NT, I dont have all the source code of the exe. I just have all the .cpp and .h files. The .dsp and .dsw files are missi...more >>

Hi, I'm viewing this stack overflow help page ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315937 ) at the ms support site. I cant say I understand the concept of a "page" the way its used in this example/explanation. I mean I only am aware of the *simple*, *general*, paging concept, the one that is...more >>

Hallo, what is the best way to check the installation of mfc80 and vcrt sidebyside assemblies? Best Regards, Dieter Pelz ...more >>

When I build my native/unmanaged C++ ATL+MFC app with /analyze I receive several errors like this: Error 1 _com_issue_error (SY_FUNCTION), offset: 0 symbol The project builds fine without /analyze It looks like a dumb output parser is just looking for the substring "error" in the /analyze o...more >>

Hello All, I am designing an ActiveX control in visual studio 2005 Vc++.After adding some memeber functions to it,its giving the error as "Error 6 error PRJ0050: Failed to register output. Please ensure you have the appropriate permissions to modify the registry." How to solve this pro...more >>

Hello All, I have written some video streaming code in VC++2005 to stream video from video server.Its Successfully compiling with no errors.but when i try to run it its giving error "This Application has failed to start becuase msvcr80.dll was not found.reinstalling this application may ...more >>

Hello all, I am designing an appliaction to stream video from video server in vc++6.I have created buffer for storing the bitmap bits of video in application.Can i create .wmv movie clips from these buffer? In visual studio 2005 i can use Windows media format sdk for this purpose.How can...more >>

Hello, all. The following code results in a C2666 error (2 overloads have similar conversions). class FSVec2D { public: FSVec2D() { // code omitted } FSVec2D(double first, ...) { va_list args; va_start(args, first); double d = first; ...more >>

Hi, I created 2 functions which run in seperate threads. what they do simply is that thread1 starts and does something while the thread 2 waits for it. Then after thread1 is done, it resumes the second thread by calling SetEvent and itself goes into wait condition by calling WaitForSingleOb...more >>

Hi. I have what I believe to be a very simple task I'm trying to accomplish in VC++ 2005 and I simply can't make it work. I have a good working knowledge of C, a basic-to-middling knowledge of C++, and a novice-level knowledge of OOP in general and Visual Studio in particular. I am not a fu...more >>

I am developing a Dialog based application using visual c++ .net 2003 running on XP, and when I run I periodically get the following error message. "The application has requested runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" The error doesn't always occur. and when I run within the IDE the err...more >>

I wrote this very simple code in .NET VC++. I compiled it on my system, and tried to run it on my friend's computer (he doesn't have the compiler). We both have Windows XP Professional. I have .NET framework 2.0, and he had 1.0 and it didn't work; then he installed 2.0 and it still didn't work...more >>

Hi, I am developping an app using managed C++. I want to be able to do a drag drop from the app to windows explorer. The files to be dropped onto explorer do not exist yet, the files are to be created by the app when the user does the drop into explorer. I have done some searches and found ...more >>

I have a time saved in a time_t variable. I'd like to be able to display the number of days since then but can't find anything built-in that will help. Failing that I'd like to display the date (only the date) that corresponds to the saved time_t variable. Thanks for any help ...more >>

hi all I've been assigned the task of designing a distributed application from scratch. I have no legacy applications to integrate or support. But I'm faced with the question : Is visual c++.net a compromise when compared to C# or VB.NET. Considering the fact that even COM+ enterprise servi...more >>

Is there some way I can do something like this #if <running on Visual C++ 2005 SP1> //SP1 code here #else //other code here #endif...more >>

Hi I am trying to take input from the console and put it into an integer. The code below is my attempt, it works, but is there a way that .Parse can be used without referring to an existing variable (whose value would be irrelevant anyway). #include "stdafx.h" using namespace System; in...more >>

I have the following: 1.A C++ dll (with no managed code whatsoever) compiled with visual C++ 2005 that links to libcmt.lib as its runtime library. and 2.A piece of binary code (also compiled with visual C++ 2005) that I cant change or have changed which calls a certain c runtime function (for ...more >>

My program gets a WM_QUERYENDSESSION message and asks the user if it is OK to shutdown. While he's thinking about it, Windows displays a box saying the program is not responding, and if not answered shuts down my program. I need to delay that while until the user answers my program's dialo...more >>

I'm using Sleep(100) and that works OK. However, it would be better if my app continued to receive and process keyboard messages. How can I pause the execution of code in one routine while letting the app respond to keyboard input? Thanks ...more >>

I have an Assembly using IJW that uses a third party native library. There are quite a few function calls that uses callbacks and pointers. One of those takes a delegate: bool enumXXX(char * someData, unsigned long lparam); Inside the passed delegate I need to cast from unsigned long to Lis...more >>

My company has been using Borland's IDEs for years and we're just now migrating to Microsoft. I'm in the process of learning visual c++ by trial and error. I have created a test GUI app, and things are going well except any time I try to set a custom icon or image on a control (like a button ...more >>

Hello, I developed my previous project (an MFC project with managed extensions) on VC.NET standard edition, it took some time to configure it but eventually it worked. Now I'm configuring a new machine with VC express. 1.I installed SP 1. 2. I copied the project to this new machine. 3. I fo...more >>