I would like to know if I should invest to learn COM+ (ATL).
Or Microsoft will discontinue it. (the NET substituted it in some way)
Thank you very much.

I have written a windows service in vc++ .net with "SystemAccount" rights
and I want to get access to the user's desktop so I have heard that  I have
to impersonate the user when it login.
How I can impersonate the user?

How do you add elements to an array defined within
another class?
For instance,
class CEntity  

How can I create a blank project with MFC support in VS.NET ?
When I create a blank win32 project, I cannot use wizard to add MFC class...
Thanks for answering !

I have Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional and I wanted to create a GUI tool which generates code (this part is done already) and then compiles this code and runs it. I would imagine I can do this with a command-line version of VC++, right? Does the command-line version come ...

We've recently encountered a bug in the optimization of
floating point computations inside loops.  To summarize, the
optimizer reorders floating point operations in a fashion that
is not permitted by the C++ Standard; even worse, when the

  I am trying to do a simple comparison and finding it
quite difficult.  I call a SQL Server stored procedure
which returns a Bit as one of the record fields.  All I
want to do is see if the Bit being read is a 1.  I have

I'm creating a number generator program, that is supposed to generate
6 unique random numbers for each game.  I want to generate this for 6
games.  The problem is, that it works for the first game, but then
all the other games have exactly the same numbers (e.g. Game 1:

For example, how do I prevent the following function from appearing in the assembly manifest?
#pragma unmanaged
void Fn() {
   int a = 1;

I'm trying to consume a .net web service with VC++.net.  It works fine
without SSL but will not work at all with SSL and no exception is
thrown.  Can someone please explain possible causes as to why this is
happening?  By the way, no client certificate is required and you can

with following example:
//main.cpp
#include <string>
using std::string;

Does it exist some C++ API or functions to get
metadata from a managed module.

I have found a bug in generated code in debug build. I have Visual C++ .NET
7.1.3088. Function Buggy::isBug() returns true and it should return false.
The sample is contrived to exhibit the bug in small code. The expression
m_array + sizeof(Buggy) * m_used

i have this error with this code:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException'
please help....
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Hello NG,
my DLL contains both managed and unmanaged code. I have problems with
a pointer declaration in a managed class
public __gc class MClass {