I defined my own exception type as follows:
public class MyException: ApplicationException
{
    public MyExceptionn() : base()

I've had a look at the VS 2005 express editions on the MS website, does
anybody know the answer to the following about them?
It says that with c# you can create console applications, windows
applications, and class libraries. Presumably this means these are the *only*

I am new to this group, but it would be really nice if you can really help  me out. I am trying to Export a file from my application to windows explorer through drag and drop using right mouse button . But once i am doing it i am getting  the DragandDropContext Menu Handler, but ...

Here is the current error that im getting when building my solution.
The only thing i can think of is that i needed to install visual
studio 6 after visual studio .net was already installed to print out
some forms that were created in vs6 causing this issue to occur.  I

i want send strings by a port COM and put the RTS signal to 1 before send,
and put it to 0 after send the last caractere. A extract of my code:
DWORD dwEvtMask;
char *bufferS = "toto";

I have a big application here that has one executable file and about 20 DLL
files. Do I need to convert all the DLLs to unicode or is it enough to do it
just for the exe file, where all the user interface is?
Thank you,

When I generate a new class with VS.NET/C++, the #include statement
that VS puts in the .cpp file to reference the .h file uses ".\" as
the directory spec. My understanding of Windows directory specs
indicates that this is superflous. Is there something I am missing?

I am developing a product , that I would like to compile
in different development environments.
So if I have to include any header file
specific to VC++ 2003 implementation, I would

I have created a setup project for my application which includes a non .NET
managed code COM object.  My COM component is automatically registered when
I build my project.
I'm having problems registering the COM component during installation.  In

I get a linking error when building an openGl program under Visual C++ 6.
I've set the entry point symbol to wWinMainCRTStartup as per the solution
posted but still no luck
The error message i get is posted below.

Does anybody know if there is a difference between the way C# calls a COM
object, and the way C++ calls a COM object? And is there anyway to make the
latter emulate the former?
I have a COM object which seemingly can't be instantiated using C++, but can

"Rookie" Jeff here, systems admin (not a C++ programmer).  I'm going through
our application for whom we've lost our main programmer for and I was trying
to locate the code for tabbing through fields on a form.  I have a problem
where the Tab moves to a field that is PAST the ...

In playing with a reverse_iterator issue today, I realized that I could use
its base() method to get at the underlying iterator.  However, I realized
that in the implementation shipping with VC7.1 the base() method returns
"current", the internal iterator object, but that "current" ...

hello
im trying to open html file with fstream clas
(foo.open("test.html",ios::in)
but with no luck , but when i try to open in this way *.txt file , i

I'm tying to build a simple Remoting thingie (techincal term).  However, I
can't seam to get it to compile.
ChatBase is defined as a public class..
The line that kills compiling: