I am trying out DialogBox, and I have been trying to press the
OK Button on the dialogbox hoping I can receive the OK DialogResult
to Main Form. Below is my OK button click event handler code on
AboutBox Dialogbox:

I am trying to run the quickstart tutorials but without much luck.
When I click the run button initially I get taken to the screen where
you are invited to enter the location on your local hard disk
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio...... etc is the default.

How the heck does one  convert a String* to char[]? Specifically:
String* my_string = "HELLO" ;
char  m_char_array[32+1] ;
m_char_array = my_string ; // error

I am brand new to VC++.net. I am a programmer.I have successfully
compiled the sample managed code 'hello world...' program. How do I
execute it within Visual Studio.net or Visual C++.net. It is a
console app and I am groping. I want to understand this framework. I

we are trying to port a fairly large c++ library to windows using
Visual Studio.net 2003, and are running into some unexpected problems
with the stream handling. Since our development is more or less
Unix-based, I am afraid I am quite a novice to all Windows - specific

I have this:
CSize sz;
  sz.cx = dwOutX1;
  sz.cy = dwOutY1;

I'm using visual c++ .net 7.1 and so I'm taking advantage of the some of the
classes in the boost library, like bind.hpp and function.hpp
The problem is that this particular header will occasionally freeze visual
studio, causing me to force it to shut down and lose whatever ...

I have function :
System::Void Form1_KeyDown(Object* sender, KeyEventArgs* e)
but this:
this->KeyDown += new KeyEventHandler(this, Form1_KeyDown);

Will XAML be mandatory in VS "Orcas"?

What's the syntax to overload the operator= under Microsoft Visual C++
.NET 2005 in a managed class.
I tried  : static Myclass^  op_Assign (Myclass^, Myclass^){}
but it doesn't work.

Hi NG!
In a managed C++ class, I have a function that expects a System::String
argument that specifies a file name. Now I want to use that filename for
CreateFile, but I don't know how to convert a System::String to a

We are in the process of migrating from VS 6.0 to VS .NET 2003.
Our code base in VS 6.0 is mainly C++.
As a first step we do _not_ want to use the .NET framework features, but
just continue to use unmanaged C++ code. We are only looking to use the more

I want to develop p2p (peer-to-peer) communication connection for chat in
.Net (Lang: c# - preferable)
NOTE: if two LAN are behind their own router then also it should work as
yahoo, msn messenger works.

I have the following code:
#include "stdafx.h"
#using <mscorlib.dll>
using namespace std;

I posted this question earlier but on the wrong usenet.
I have a warning below that I need to suppress
*warning C4018: '<' : signed/unsigned mismatch
I searched google, Microsoft help and MSDN for an answer but no luck.