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RYoung - 25 Jun 2005 09:21 GMT

Hi all,

Using VC Express Beta 2,

Just a simple class so far cause I can't get past this error:

error C3861: 'CoInitialize': identifier not found

public ref class Class1
{
public:
Class1()
{
CoInitialize( NULL );
}
};

Thats it.

Any help is appreciated,
Ron

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Jochen Kalmbach [MVP] - 26 Jun 2005 12:28 GMT

Hi RYoung!

> Using VC Express Beta 2,
>
> Just a simple class so far cause I can't get past this error:
>
> error C3861: 'CoInitialize': identifier not found

Have you installed the Platform SDK?
The PSDK ist not installed by the VC Express 2005 Edition!

See: PSDK ISO Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D8EECD75-1FC4-49E5-BC66
-9DA2B03D9B92

See: Set VC++ Directories in Options dialog (Visual C++ Express)
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2995

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Jochen

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RYoung - 25 Jun 2005 12:04 GMT

Hi,
I got the PSDK installed, and went through the steps
to set the directories for the express editions, about that though - I
merely appended the path to the PSDK include/lib dirs to what was already in
the config file:
Heres a partial snip:

<Directories
Include="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform
SDK\Include;$(VCInstallDir)include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0
SDK (April
2005)\Include;$(VCInstallDir)atlmfc\include;$(VCInstallDir)PlatformSDK\inclu
de;$(VCInstallDir)PlatformSDK\common\include;$(FrameworkSDKDir)include"
Library="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform
SDK\Lib;$(VCInstallDir)lib;$(VCInstallDir)atlmfc\lib;$(VCInstallDir)atlmfc\l
ib\i386;$(VCInstall

Anyways, I did all that, then tried to build the project and got the error I
mentioned below.
Does that look alright?

- RYoung

> Have you installed the Platform SDK?
> The PSDK ist not installed by the VC Express 2005 Edition!
>
> See: PSDK ISO Download

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D8EECD75-1FC4-49E5-BC66
-9DA2B03D9B92

> See: Set VC++ Directories in Options dialog (Visual C++ Express)
> http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2995
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> My blog about Win32 and .NET
> http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/

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RYoung - 25 Jun 2005 12:15 GMT

I think I got it, I used Project->Properties to paste the path to the PSDK
include/lib and DirectX include dirs, and it seems to be working now. I'll
mess with the .config file some more and see if I can get that working, but
thanks for putting me on the right path.

Ron

> Hi RYoung!
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> See: PSDK ISO Download

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D8EECD75-1FC4-49E5-BC66
-9DA2B03D9B92

> See: Set VC++ Directories in Options dialog (Visual C++ Express)
> http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2995

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