I am new to coding in Windows. I need to know if its
possible to close all the handles open (If there are any)
to a particular file. The assumption here is that, I do
not know if there is any handle open to the file or not.

I was used to write codes based on MFC on VC++ 6.0. Now the development
platform in our company is immigranted to Microsoft Visual C++ .Net. Can
anyone recommend some reference books on Visual C++ .Net?  Thanks in
advance.

Hi, I need to create my own compiler for a programming
class.  I'm wanting to do this w/ a Microsoft compiler,
i.e. not gnu or some other Linux/Unix mess.  Does anyone
know of some good Microsoft references?

I copied a set of VC++ version 6 source code of
the 'cppdll'(2 projects) from a website and put the
cppdll.cpp, cppdll.def, cpp.h, (as the 1st project) and
test.cpp (as the 2nd project) into my Microsoft VC++ .NET

I have two files libqdbm.dll.a and qdbm.dll. In cygwin libqdbm.dll.a is
located in /usr/local/lib while qdbm.dll is located in windows/system32.
I have my test project which I compiled in cygwin using the following
command:

If I try to reference System::Windows::Forms::KeyEventArgs in a header file
I get the error:
MyHeader.h(236) : error C2039: 'Windows' : is not a member of 'System'
Any ideas why this is happening ? Can I not reference a name using its full

It looks like VS.Net does not display messages from
OutputDebugString while debugging managed code. Is it
right?  Afraid so, or calls to this would work:
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]

Hye,
   Jigar Mehta from India. I have one application of MFC - dialog based
application. Now I don't want GUI in that. It is a pure multithreaded
process which will run continuously and does some task. How to remove the

Does the standard version not allow opening of files?  I copied and pasted code from help files and was able to compile without errors.  It runs OK, but it will not open a file.  The output I get is 'The file 'data' was not opened'.  Is it necessary to own professional version to ...

Hye Friends!!,
Happy New Year!!
   I am Jigar Mehta from India. Currently I am working on a project in
which I need to compress some images on the harddisk... I want to make an

The first type to a delegate constructor is obvious. It is a System::Object
* . What is the MC++ type of the second argument to the delegate constructor
? In C++ it would be a member function pointer when the first object is not
0, but I can't find its equivalent type in .NET. I ...

When both waiting on an event and a simple unnamed mutex, I'm wondering
when WaitForSingleObject might return WAIT_FAILED.  These are both
execution paths I'd very much like to avoid exceptional behavior but I
haven't found much documentation on the specifics.  Can anyone offer ...

I have a project that was written in studio 6, and has now been
converted/rebuilt in .NET 2003. Everything was going fine until I went
to add a new dialog.
I created the dialog, went to project->add class, chose mfc class,

I'm getting "multiply defined" errors on STL symbols.  Isn't this a
linker error ?  By definition, doesn't the compiler/linker need to
guarentee the "one definition rule".
Linking...

Hi, I am trying to create a directory from within my
program.  I found the IO::Directory::CreateDirectory
(filename) function, and used that but I get two errors
concerning CreateDirectoryA (one that it takes two