Can someone please tell me why I'm getting this error, I'm using the beta 2
for 2005 C++.  This also happens with VC++ version 2002.  Please help me.  
Here is my code.
#include "stdafx.h"

Hello, I am new in programming smart cards and I got an error in compiling that I cannnot manage to get rid of.
There is a function in the PCSC that is called "ScardEstablishContext"
I am calling this function as
SCARDCONTEXT hSC; //SCARDCONTEXT=unsigned long

Hi, i have a VB.net class project i compiled into a DLL and im wondering how
i can impliment this into a C++ program. I dont want to convert the code from
VB.net to VC++. I know i have to make it a COM object, but how do i do that?
ive been trying to figure it out and i cant so ...

What's up with the pre-compiled headers in c++?
I have used c++ many years ago but mostly on unix.  I have recently been
using c# in VS.Net 2003 (which i like a lot).  Now I'm trying to C++ in
VS.Net 2005 and can't get the hello world program to compile.

I'm drawing graphics using the Graphics object one can grab in a Form's
Paint event. But I'm getting a weird thing happening...
These graphic shapes flicker (even if unchanged). UNLESS- I created a timer
and had the timer update a Label on the form with timer interval set to 10.

Does it exist some good API documentation over all .NET classes in a similar
way like the Java API.
I found it difficult to find in the documentation over the .NET classes.
Where exist the best documentation at the current time?

I've been porting a project to .Net that has several segments of code that I
would like to keep as native code in wrappers. I've been using VS2003 and
VC++ to create mixed dlls that I then can used from C#.
I see that the new 2005 version has a new and significantly different ...

I had two Visual Studio .NET C++ solutions that I combined into one.  These
project solutions were very similar.  In fact, the two solutions were sharing
many files.
Now that they are one solution, I #ifdef'd pre-processor variables

I wonder if the transistion from the project written in VC++ 6.0 to VC++ .NET
requires a lot of code changes (if any) if I compile the project in native
code (or unmanaged code) without using the CLR in VC++ .NET.
Thanks for your feedback.

I got a Wrapper Dll around a native C++ static library. In .NET 1.1 this
worked fine. When moving to .NET 2.0 I get a couple of unresolved externals /
linker errors:
Error    16    error LNK2028: unresolved token (0A000007) "extern "C" void

I've been wrapping an unmanaged class, and everything has gone well.  That
is...until now.
I've hit a wall while trying to marshal the System::Guid type down into the
unmanaged GUID structure that the unmanaged class asks for.  For some

Hello, I have a control that sends ON_MESSAGE to owner window, also, I have a
derived class from this control and I want to catch ON_MESSAGE in my derived
class and not in the owner window; how can I do this? Is there a
'ON_MESSAGE_REFLECT'?

I just seeking advice.
Some background information first because I've run into issues
that seems pretty obscure to me:( Quick search through KB yields
next to nothing. Simplified samples work OK as well, the problems

Hi people,
I'm testing
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.42  (RTM.050727-4200)