My C drive is short on free diskspace. I noticed that VS2003 has a folder
called CompactFrameworkSDK which occupies almost 200 MB. I don't use it and
would like to delete it. If I do, how will it affect VS 2003?
TIA,

I have the following problem. I converted my code from vc++ 6.0 to c++ .net. But I get the following error:
error result returned from cl.exe
This error drives me crazy :((. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, would you please tell me. I am in a desperate condition, totally ...

Why don't managed classes (i.e., _gc garbage-collected classes) support
'const', 'virtual', and 'static'? Is there a reason they can't, or is these
possibly going to be supported in the future?
Thanks in advance...

I have VC++ project that is unmanaged. I would like to build components like
user interface dialog boxes in VB .net and call them from the unmanaged VC++
application. Is this possible? Before .net I would have done this with an
activex object or com object. Any suggestions would ...

Ok, what am I do wrong here. I created a class with a public method, and
when I try to create a new overload of it in a derived child class it won't
let me:
class Parent_Class

How do developers that use the SDK (not full-blown VS IDE) create dialog
boxes?
Do they type out the DIALOG resource section of the .rc file manually? Use a
third-party program? Or cheat, and hop on a mate's PC that has got VS IDE

Can this approach pin a ref object, in this case a System::String? (just
because C++ programmers like low level programming and not a language
that tries to protect us from ourselves).
int main()

Is it possible to make a public parent class method unavailable (i.e.,
generate an error at compile time) to a particular child class?
For example, say a parent class has a public method Add( ). I want to create
a child class of this parent class that does not have an Add( ) method

In .NET (and C++/CLI) there is an overloaded String == operator for
handles. That is when we do comparison of two String handles the
contents of the Strings are compared instead of their addresses.
However how can we do a handle comparison when we want to determine if

As a C programmer just starting to look at Managed C++, I was shocked to
find that you cannot declare a managed type globally so that for example in
a partiuclar module you can declare some data globally so that all functions
in that module can see it to save passing it about as ...

I am trying use mscorlib.dll from old VC6 MFC app that was ported to the VC7
compiler.  The app works fine except when I enable /clr in the project
settings and run the app.  The following error dialog appears then the app
exits:

I am trying use CLR from an old VC6 MFC app that was ported to the VC7
compiler.  Initially the app worked fine.  However, after I enabled /clr in
the project
settings and ran the app, all calls to AfxOleInit(), OleInitialize() and

I try to compile the following with Visual Studio.NET
   #include <iostream.h>
   void main()
   {

Since recompiling my project with /clr, I noticed I could not get Edit and
Continue debugging. I ntoiced that the /ZI option had been changed to /Zi so
changed it back to /ZI but when I compile it tells me that the /ZI and /clr
options are incomptible.

Hello, All!
Mercy me for a stupid question. I'm just newby.
Which type or class should I use for a comfortable strings manipulation,
namely for setting a first parameter for the fopen() function?