When I attempt to extract a thumbnail from a simple JPG in Windows 2000 I get
an error.  This works fine in Windows XP and 2003 Server.  
The error is 0x80004002 - "No such interface supported".
I have called ::CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED); before running

I'm converting some Unix code to Windows. I need to fork() in a section
in my code. Nearest Windows functionality is CreateProcess().
Any ideas or guidelines (gotchas) on best practices/how to procedd?
Thanks

I need to write a program that launches Internet Explorer, then counts
how many <ENTER> keys are pressed inside IE. I've seen a lot of
references to the SetWindowsHookEx() API call, but all sources I found
seem to be piece-meal and incomplete. I'm using VC++ .NET, and would

how do you mark an object for garbage collection in C++.NET 2005 ?
 MyDbClass^ obj = gcnew MyDbClass();
 // Release the object
 obj = 0;  --> COMPILER ERROR

i plan to use a managed dll containing WinForm classes in an unmanaged
win32 exe.
Starting from NOTHING, how do i have to proceed ?
I have found the following tutorial on microsoft.com :

I'm really struggling with this issue.  I can see it's complex, but given
the difficulty in reproducing it it's really essential that the advice
provided is bullet-proof and very clear.  So far, I can't follow the advice.
My situation is this: I have followed MS recommendations to ...

I need to put up a simple modal dialog, and am surprised how hard it seems
to be.  Am I missing something here?
I have created a dialog resource IDD_DELETE_S9.  It has some static text
plus 3 buttons. The buttons have ids of IDOK, IDCANCEL and IDC_RENAME.  All

I know, this question was posted a year ago (link below).
I wonder whether Microsoft changed it's mind and
fixed check_stack pragma to disable buffer security
for a single function.

Example...
This would make that i can assign a ULONG to a CComBSTR2 class while the
body of the code performs necessary conversion.
CComBSTR2& operator=(ULONG ulong)

Hey.  I've got a color photo in a simple unsigned charRGB array.  The photo
does not exist on disk.  I want to display the photo in my window.
The application I am working in (not my choice) demands that I draw into the
display by first creating a Bitmap, and then drawing into a ...

Please help me.  I am trying to send data to a multi-line textbox one
character at a time.  However, the text box is not showing a continuous
stream; instead, it is showing only the single character each time I write
to the text box.  How do I show a continuous stream?

Hi, all!
Thanks a lot for your responses.  We are using the GetProcessTimes  for
calculation of cpu usage.  We are using the following calcution for get cpu
usage:

We have some large mixed .dlls.  The percentage of code that is managed is
small relative to the percentage of native code.  We generally want to favor
native callers.  But I am struggling with the phenomenon where the mere use
inclusion of headers that contain templates in /CLR ...

Using VC Express Beta 2,
Just a simple class so far cause I can't get past this error:
error C3861: 'CoInitialize': identifier not found
public ref class Class1

Dear friends,
I'm fresh in VC++ .NET. Console::WriteLine(S"Welcome to VC++.NET");
Why it's use "S" in it?
regards