I want to write a c# application to capture the contents of a
magnetic stripe card with a card reader attached to the USB or COM
port of the PC. Are there any libraries or anything available to
do this, or do I need to read directly from the these port? Any

I did not see any doc/view concept in vc.net 2005.
did MS stop with this concept ? or have i seen wrong ?
thanks a lot,
Maileen

All:
Can double __gc * be cast to a double*?  In C# the fixed(double* pX = x) can
be used. Is there an equivalent in C++.NET?
Thanks in advance.

Hi, 'WNetGetUniversalName()' is for WinNT/XP, is there a equivalente for
Win98/ME?
Thanks in advance,
William GS

A project compiles fine under VS 2005 RC without the /clr
option.  However, when /clr is turned on several errors appear:
- A symbol exported from a DLL is not found by another
DLL referencing it.

I created a managed C++ application at work on a Dell computer running at
around 3 ghz. It runs fine, and looking at CPU usage (vie the Windows Task
Manager), it doesn't even show up (the meter is almost at zero, indicating
its not using very much CPU time).

I'm still trying to figure out some of the nuances of access to legacy
Win32 DLLs.  I need to alloc buffers to be used by the Win32 DLLs.  I
know that pinning a managed pointer can lead to framentation, but I
don't see an alternative.  Is there an easy way to generate a call to

Hello!!
When you for example use C++.net environment for develop an GUI application
does this mean that you doesn't use win32 API as much as when you had visual
studio 6.0 because of the large frame work classes that .net consist of?

Does the .net environment support creating GUI application for C++ in the
same easy way as C# or vb.net does?
Is the frame work classes for .net the same for languages as vb.net, c#.net
and c++.net?

I have few link errors that i am not able to get rif off in a VC++ project
(plugin for filemaker) where i am trying to port the code written for a mac
to windows.
I am creating a object of a class and calling its member functions in

I'm told that when an VC++ 6 project is copied and compiled with the
VS2005 compiler, that the runtime requires the .NET framework.  I
don't have any machines handy that *don't* have the framework
installed so I can't confirm this.

I need to utilize function pointers in my MFC application.  I was
wondering what the best approach is.  Im a C# developer, so I'm farily
comofortable using delegates.
So far I've found a library called boost.function

I am trying to get a list of all the process running on WinCE. I first
developed my code on NT (which is working fine) and now I am porting it to
WinCE 4.20. I am using embedded Visual C++ 4 SP2.
My problem is that the callback function is called only once and my program

This article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcmex/html/vcco
nconvertingmanagedextensionsforcprojectsfrompureintermediatelanguagetomixedmode.
asp
seems to be somewhat out of date. Not all of it seem to apply to vs 2005
 (beta 2) and c++/CLI. I ...

*** NOTE: Not sure where to post this, it's about both C++ and C#....I
assume this forum is ok ***
I've looked at some C# code, and it looks remarkably like C++. Will the
similarity help me or confuse me (i.e., if its very similar then differences