Good Day All,
I have an ActiveX DLL written in VB6. It defines a COM interface.
I need to be able to use this interface in C++. However, since I don't have
a header file I am not sure how to reference it. I have the lib file and the

I am testing VS 2005 Express August CTP.
I am very thrilled by the fact that I can write code agaist the .NET
Framework (in new syntax). Now I have a question - I want to enumerate
all elements in a collection. In C# or VB, I'd use foreach or For Each.

I am using VC++/Visual Studio 6.0. I can get the current screen resolution
with GetSystemMetrics(), but how do you change the screen resolution ? I
guess I couldn't find a SetSystemMetrics() function or equivalent.
Ideallly, I'd like to avoid messing up with DirectX or the display ...

I  need to wrap a MFC extension Dll  with export class(let's suppose it's
named CA)
so we could  use it in C#.
The dll is provided by third party vendor which means I couldn't modify it.

In C# I can write:
if(someObj is someType)
{ .. }
In C++/CLI I used:

Developing in C++, .Net 2003 (7.1)
Running on Windows XP SP2
My delima is that all my windows services run fine until I STOP the service
at which time I get a "The windows service terminated unexpectidly" and the

In the following code-snippet,
template<class Base>
class Foo : public Base
{

why are those functions marked as deprecated in Vc++2005? what should be
used instead?

I have written an article declaring and using multi-dimensional
pointers in C++. The article tries to address many of the issues
related to multi-dimensional pointers.
Article link:

I have been desperately trying to solve a problem where I am wrapping
an unmanaged dll with managed extensions for c++ and then calling the
managed dll functions from C#. However, whenever I call the new
operator to create a new instance of the unmanaged class, I get the

I'm trying to use:
keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, 0, 0);
keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
to take a screenshot, and use:

i am writing a Win32 application at the moment. I have main.cpp which
registers, creates and handles message loop. I then have another file called
CustomButton.h. Inside that one i have made some of my own functions to do
customizations on Button controls.

Can anybody tell me why the ATL::ColeDateTime implementation is referenced
rather than the MFC implementation?  The method GetAsDBTIMESTAMP(...) is
only available on the MFC implementation and not ATL.  Is there a compiler
directive or switch or namespace that I am missing that ...

Does anyone know how to copy files inside network from mashine one to
mashine2
if the mashine2 requires user/pass authentication ??
I need this for Windows platform.

Hello, sorry for X-posting
Hope you are able to help with this one as its really urgent.
I have two unmanaged VC++ 7.0 projects which requre the use of ActiveX
controls within the dialog designer (not Winforms!). Both projects are