hiho@ll
i want to make a IE Toolbar which has a newsticker built in
the problem i have is i don't really know how to use static text in a  
toolbar?

Hello from a newbie,
I am trying to do some research on an upcoming project that involves reading
in audio files of various formats and using the audio signal as a source of
noise to generate pretty pictures. (like windows media player visual plugins.

I only have a dialup connection and I was wondering if someone knows
where I can buy the CD or DVD with the new Visual Studio Express
versions.  I would download them, but it would take weeks at dialup
speed to download them all.

In order to host and use an ActiveX control (non-GUI) in a WTL app, I
followed the following steps:
1. During project creation, the ActiveX Hosting option is enabled.
2. In the dialog editor, the ActiveX control was inserted.

First of all sorry for the cross post. I was not sure which ng would be
most appropriate.
I need a book that gives guidelines on good GUI design (preferably,
comes with a few template GUIs one can extend). There seems to be so

I have two questions:
a) From documentation located at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcmxspec/html/v
cManagedExtensionsSpec_7_7.asp,
it says, "Pinning a sub-object defined in a managed object has the effect of

I am working on a language project and am using flex to generate a scanner .  
The output of flex is a C file, lex.yy.c   I want to use classes (C++) for
all other phases of  the project.  When I compile the lex.yy.c I get an
error: - C1010 unexpected end of file while looking for ...

  Can the 'stdin' and 'stdout' streams point to a Network socket? I have a
socket connection from Windows to UNIX, can I set the two streams to point to
the socket connection to send/receive data?
thanks,

I am a veteran C/C++ programmer (Unix background) and I want to get to
speed with Visual Studio .Net
I have legacy C/C++ code that I want to use in my application. However,
I'm not sure how to call my native C++ functions from my C++ DLLs. The

i am trying to write a test that would cause a method that writes a registry
value name to fail. can anyone tell me if there are any limitations to a
registry value name? length? types of characters? they had a test in place
that attempts to write a huge string (Hamlet's monalog) ...

I have to write a lot of data to excel for analysts who use it further from
there but would like to use managed C++ and not C# since a lot of code is
involved which already exists now in managed C++.
In C# I could handle it easily as you can see in this sample:

Being an old MFC guy, I'm having a heck of a time working with MC++.  Can
anybody tell me why the following code outputs 65 instead of an A.   And yes
I know 65 is the hex value for A, but why is it getting converted? And how
to I get an A to be outputted?

This is what I get by the way : the error on my Remoting.
Code:
RemotingConfiguration::Configure ("RTC_cpp.exe.config");
Error:

Hi, is there any guy can tell me how does Gmail achieve this?
I know maybe The Windows Shell Extension can help me, but can you tell me
more details?
Thanks in advance!

I have a C++ program written and compiled on Solaris 8 with gcc. With gcc
lets me compile fortran code along with the C++ program to be able to call
the fortran code as a subroutine.  The specifications for this project have
changed and I am porting the C++ code to Visual C++.  ...