Does anyone have information about mcsfront, the translation tool for
Managed Extensions -> C++/CLI bindings? It has been mentioned on Stan
Lippman's blog some time ago.
Anyone aware of other options to do a semi-automatic translation?

I have read some codes like following:
///////////////////////////////////////////
   SqlConnection* conn =
     new SqlConnection(S"Server=localhost;"

I have a CString with a numeric string in it.  In the past, I would use
atoi( ) to convert to an int.  That doesn't work with Unicode though.
What is the proper Unicode method for converting a CString to an
integer?

I can't seem to locate the visual C++ (pre .NET) ng. This may be slight
off topic here - please point me to the correct ng if it is.
Without going into much detail (and repeating myself several times), I
am using Visual C++ 6.0 to develop applications - *instead* of .Net.  I

I want to use my unmanaged c++ class library from a c# client.
my unmanaged c++ class library use polymorpism, is this polymorphism also
exported to my c# client via PInvoke ?
thanks.

I use the llib library from adler and compiled it myself.
First I build the lib configuration, then I included zlib.h in stdafx.h and
I added a lib reference
C:\Data\zip\zlib-1.2.2\projects\visualc6\Win32_LIB_Release\zlib.lib

What's the deadline for MFC ?

The new Visual C++ 2005 is coming out in a theater near you. :-)
Just a few questions:
* How will the users that use my program upgrade to the .NET framework 2.0?
My current users already refuse to install the v1.x framework since they

Hi group
I´m currently trying to put together a small c++ dll that can access a
webpage and write the contens to a local disk (I´m using VS.NET 2003).
It seems that MS has created some nice API´s for accessing internet

I want to know.......best book for visual c++........
Book shold be based on basic & fundamental....knowledge to build reader a
good programmer.......

I have a multilingual application, to which I am adding Russian. The prolem
is that all the dialog boxes & Menus are showing junk characters instead of
Cyrillics!!
while my window contents are working fine.  I tried setting the Regional

To get an understanding of UI threads in C++/CLI, I attempted to
duplicate the following C# example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/wi
nforms06112002.asp
Here is the code:

I wonder if any of you could come to the rescue of a damsel in distress ;-)
I am looking for 2 very simple VC++ examples (projects/solutions) that
does the ff:
1). Includes a Form and makes calls to functions exported from a DLL (se

We have a hospital system written in MUMPS language. It is an old
black-white terminal based system. We want to convert this system to a
visual one. We decided to make the new system in Microsoft Visual Studio
using C# language.

if a DLL has been linked with this flag, is there a way to override it at
runtime? An api I can call?