okay, I'll admit I've never compiled a program in VC7 before, but when I
compiled this one in debug, it generated a 6k file and did not work,
building it in VC6 worked as expected, and generated a 66k file.  I'm pretty
sure it must be user error, but I dunno what for the life of me. ...

There are many .sys files like keyboard.sys
and diskio.sys and so on in the Windows Directory. I understand that these
sys files are tied to operating system already compiled at Microsoft before
shipping.

there is no iostream.h in vs.net 2003 includes
using iostream.h from vc6 header fails to link (limcimtd
not found)
So how do I compile code with old iostream header in it

  i am developing an activex control for IVRS system on
windows 2000 professional platform...
  the function waveOutReset does not work properly...
whenver the system encounters the function call, it hangs

I'm new to Visual C++ for .NET and during learning I
encountered the following:
In Form1.h file inside class Form1 following the book
example I defined fuction that looks like this:

I wrote a DLL in VB.NET using .NET Framework library, to
access a Crystal Report. Then I registered the DLL using
regasm.exe.
Now I need to use this DLL from an executable that:

Could someone offer a solution to the following issue I have with vc7.1.
With VC6 it was possible to turn off linker warnings with a
#pragma comment( linker, "/ignore:4049" )
line in the source. With VC7.1 the linker now reports that /ignore is

I just installed VC++.NET and haven't had much luck.  It just won't
compile anything that isn't stored on a local hard drive.  Local
projects are fine (well, other than my stupid mistakes) and compile
without a problem.