I create a simple win32 project (VC2003, windows2003(English) ,
and do simple paint in WM_PAINT message, when the project use
multi-character set, it is OK.
but when I change to UNICODE, some Chinese characters are illegible( I see

I just installed the Visual Studio Pro .net trial and have been trying to
tailor the context sensitive help to how it behaves in VC6.  I've set the
help system to external, but when I press F1 on say "CloseHandle," I no
longer am presented with a dialog that contains the various ...

I have a MFC COM Server that runs in the background.  
There is no UI or dialogs other than an occasional
AfxMessageBox that might pop up with messages.
My problem is if the user is running any other app, the

Hye,
   How to create systemwide hooks for keyboard for keys like WIN, ALT+TAB,
CTRL+ALT+DEL even when the application does not have the focus on it...
Thanks,

I have some header files that contain macros in a special
syntax. These files are used with various tools that
extract information from these macros. One of these tools
is cl.exe.

Quick question about VC.Net forms.
The second I add a picture pox with associated image to my form, my app goes
off into the weeds in the form designer code at the line where it tries to
read the image resource from the resource manager.

Please help me in the following issue:
how to raise an event from an unmanaged class to a
managed class.
Both classes are in C++ and there should not be any static methods involved

Assumed two assemblies (one C# and one C++), C++ refers
to C#. The follwing code compiles and works well under VS
2002! VS 2003 C++ compiler reports the error
"error

I am completely baffled when the following managed exception is thrown:
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" from a nested
subroutine when referencing a variable allocated on the program stack.
Given the following simple example:

Hello, Everyone,
I'm trying to find information on how to populate a combo
box using a SqlDataReader.  I want to be able to set the
value of the combo's value property different then the

In the header file vcclr.h (in the .../Vc7/include directory of your
installation) there is an inlined function PtrToStringChars defined.  This
is a utility function to get quick access to the internal chars of a
System::String object.  I came across it by reading Peter Grimes's ...

I have a development app that needs a registry hook created by installing VC++ 6.0 but I do not have a copy of this version. I have bought VC++ .NET Standard 2003 and this hasn't done the job but was wondering if it is possible to use the license key from the version I own to ...

Can someone explain to me the difference between dynamic
array of pointers vs dynamic array of objects by giving a
real life example. Following is the code that I am using
for dynamic array of objects. I am skipping initialization

I have read and re-read KB 814472.  There appears to be a little 1984
New Speak in it.
I am referring to option 3.
DLL that contains consumers that use managed code and dll exports or

I'm in the middle of porting code to VS.NET from VS6.0.  My code compiles
fine under DEBUG mode but under RELEASE mode I get a compile-time error:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Vc7\atlmfc\include\afxwin2.inl(1034) : error C2039: 'Enable3dControls'