I'm converting a VS 6 MFC C++ project to VS 2005 C++
I'm done to a single error to do with GUID_NULL not being defined
This error occures in a single cpp file which uses #define INITGUID
Any ideas where GUID_NULL should be defined or an include file that I'm

Hey, is there a limit to the stack size? I realize of course there must be,
but how is this determined/set? Or does it self adjust up to, say, available
memory (and possibly virtual memory from hard drives)? My current project
can be set to be from very-stack-intensive to ...

Could someone point me to an example or at least outline of a solution
to the following problem:
I want to be able to compile the body of a method written in C++,
submitted by a possibly malicious CS student, and if it compiles

Newbie question here for disposing of unmanaged resources in MC++.NET.
I have a managed VS.NET 2003 MC++ wrapper class that wraps a unmanaged
C++ dll. What I am trying to figure out is what is the "best practice"
for disposing of pointers to unmanaged classes that you have newed in

I wrote an MFC program whose icon, tooltip and menus are available in systray.
When I right-click on the icon, not only my popup menus but also the taskbar
popup menu, such as, "Toolbars", "Adjust Date/Time", etc. are displayed.
If I right-click one more time, then only my menus ...

I am trying to convert a text string in to hex values.  I am at a loss
of how to get this done. I am also some what new to VC I have worked in
Unix C for a while though.
I am been searching the web for this but can't find the solution I am

Is it true that VC++ doesn't support switch on string data type?
Did anyone know how to handle the following situation?
(1) System::String* s_TC =
treeview->Nodes->Item[i]->Nodes->Item[j]->Text;

I've got this problem with source control when multiple users use the same
computer. Somehow the project I work on has someone else's login to
sourcesafe, which creates this subtle problem to me: whenever I edit the
file, and thus the file is checked out, but checked out by ...

I am looking for some example of how to encode a string pair (user/password)
in base64. I am using basic windows authentication...
¿Could anybody help me?
Thank you in advance

This is a continuation of a thread named:
    Stack overflow: Correct way to define a pointer to a function?
and I'm replying to
    Willy Denoyette [MVP]

How does one write an unmanaged function that perform this functionality?
In short I want to turn off/on visual style in my app...
Thanks,
Stephan

I'm trying to move to VS .NET 2005 so I'm starting by opening the VS 6
project.  The transformation of the project file worked fine.  When I build
the project I receive the following 2 errors which I'm having difficulty
resolving.

I'm used to make a DLL with GCC where it's rather simple (tag your function
with __decl(dllexport) andf that's it).
How do I do the same thing with VC++ express?
I try to show a friend how to use his legacy C library with .NET.

I have downloaded & installed both VC++ express and the platform SDK.
Now I want to compile some win32 source code but it doesn't, it don't find
the headers.
Now I guess I could add the PlatformSDK's lib & include directories in my

Two installations of VS 2005 Pro RTM. Same symptom with both.
Simple Win32 Console application compiles fine, but when I attempt to run
(with or without debugging), message appears: failed to find mdvcp80d.dll.
A search reveals the file is present (two instances, 1004 kb each).