I'm currently evaluating a .NET installer platform.
Basically, it has come down to either Wise or Installshield.
It would be great to hear about your experiences with these
product in deploying .NET apps. If you have experience

I'm trying to write a function to sort the words in a sentence. Suppose there
is only one space between words.
For example, the input string is "They are Jonny and Jone". And ideal result
is

Running this piece of code while having the sse optimization turned on
(vcnet2003), something really strange happens I cannot explain. Without sse
it is giving me the right results.
float f = 0.8;

I am making a syntax highlighter for T-SQL, and I am going to hardcode the
words into it for speed's sake (I will probably have thought up enough new
features for a new version when the next version of SQL comes out).
My main algorithm is going to go through all the words in the ...

I have recently purchased Visual C++ . Net compiler and i am trying to
compile a project that i had working in Visual C++ 6.0.
When I compile, I am receiving the warning:
cl : Command line warning D4025 : overriding '/EHs' with '/EHa'

I have two problems with design view in VStudio 2003:
First, if I close a solution with a form in design view, next time that
I want start the vstudio, it hangs up before loading the project.
I must remove the .vcproj file from the solution directory, start the

What do I have to set to get a VS.NET 2005 executable generated with the /clr
(without :safe) option to run from the command line.
using namespace System;
void main()

i have some data in excel....I want to perform a series of operations on
them and output the results to excel again. I know that some stuff could be
used with VBA. however in this special case I don't know how to do it.!
ex:

Hello All - Hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction.  
I have a System::String that is part of a managed class.  Within a member
function, I need to convert this String to a C-Style null terminated
character array so that it can be passed to a legacy C ...

How can I supress runtime security checks in a mixed-mode C++ assembly?  
SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute apparently only works for P/Invoke
and COM interop.
I've got a somewhat chatty interface and can clearly see these checks being

We have a property sheet that is created in one dll, and on that property
sheet, there is a property page that is created in another dll. So, the
property sheet and the property page come from different module states. Now,
in CPropertySheet::OnKickIdle(), it calls GetActivePage() ...

I have prepared Qt with the .NET 2003 and the "preparation" process failed.
The error points to the missing string.h header file. I have used
csvars32.bat
to prepare the envitronment variable, but found no trace to this file in the

We have a medium size project about 2000 source files and 700,000
lines of code, as you can imagine this takes some time to rebuild all.
Now our problem is that we have a code generator we have developed
that updates some of our classes, as an example lets say I update 50

First off, the sympathy is for all you poor buggers out there who have to figure out how to marry
Managed Extensions for C++ onto your legacy code. My condolences; my brief experience with the
process leads me to believe the Microsoft hates all of its VC++ developers :)
Now, the ...

This is probably a simple/stupid question, but...
I have an MDI application which has a socket receiving data.  When the
data is received it is displayed in some way.  Sometimes the data that
is received is new and sometimes it is just an update.  If something