I am developping a Visual C++ .NET 2003 multiple forms application. My
problem is: When running my application, I click a button  and a new
main menu item is created. Ok. Now I want to relate an event to the
click of this new item created. How do I create an event related to a

Hi I am using VS 2005 to upgrade a demo project and I came across this error
in a bunch of code which compiles fine on VC++ 2003.
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I am building a C++ library using VS .NET 2003.  I am adding a library into
the Additional Dependencies input box.  I then click apply and check the
resulting command line.  This causes the library to be added twice.  The
first instance is just the library name, the second ...

How to typecast double into ascii or string?
Please help me.

Is it possible to set the stack size for the thread created by
BackgroundWorker like in the API call _beginthread? If not is the stack size
a default or the one I set for the whole application?
(What I need is a worker thread with a rather large stack in a Windows Forms

Does anyone know if STL containers work with Visual C++ Express?
For example how would one correctly declare a map with a System::String as
a key and another System::String as a value?  The following does not work:
std::map<System::String^, System::String^) amap;

My app requires runtime creation of an ActiveX control on demand. I
attempted to fullfil this requirment with the following code snippet:
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In the code below, ALL the lines that start with PPTfile << are getting the
following error at build time.
"//i:\C++\C++Code\FileOperations\Form1.h(127) : warning C4800:
'System::String __gc *' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false'

I've got an application that uses Pthread to do threading.  Mostly Im using
Condition Variables and the associated function calls:
- pthread_cond_wait()
- pthread_cond_signal()

I'm trying to compile a project in C++.Net which was built using Visual C++
6. I'm getting some major compile errors and need to find a solution soon. I
can either try and convert the project so it is compatible with .NET (which I
think will be error prone and risky) or I can ...

What is the difference between C# and C++.Net?  Sorry for the lame question,
but I have been trying to figure out the difference.  Which one is better to
use for commercial applications?
Thanks for helping me understand!...

Do you know if I can use a mixed mode C++ dll from an unmanaged C++ dll?
I need it because I want to use C# class located in dll from unmanaged C++
code located in dll.
I thought maybe I can define a  mixed mode C++, so the C++ unmanaged dll

I am developping a Visual C++ .NET multiple forms application, which
uses FTP connection. When I use more than one form, and include the
<afxinet.h> library (necessary for FTP connection), the linker errors
occur:

I've got a windows service I created with VC++.NET. It was compiled with
a version number in the assemblyinfo.cpp. When I look at the properties
for the EXE, I don't see the version number (or even the version tab).
Ideas?

I was having difficulty trying to use ofstream in C++ 2003, so I booted to
another system that has VS C++ 6 and got the code working.
I then import the project into VS C++ .NET 2002. Code ran as expected. There
was a warning that the code was deprecated.