There are few properties that don't follow the
traditional 'by handle' values.
For example:
System::Runtime::Serialization::Formatter ^f = ...;

I have a beautiful class library (DLL) designed under C#. Now I need to
use a class from that library in a VC++ project (VS 2005).
However, I desperately fail to find a possibility to make my VC++ code
see the declaration of the class. There are no header files under C#,

I need to change the opacity of some part of a form (e.g. vertically
1/2)....If i set opacity from property it affects the whole form. Can
anyone help me in this regard?

I have a program which runs in multiple languages. The problem is that
message boxes displayed when I run my program on Hebrew still have
left-to-right reading order. This is Hebrew locale on an English Windows
machine. I know there is a constant MB_RTLREADING or osmething, but I ...

I have upgraded my source code from VS 2003 to VS 2005, and my code is
breaking due to the _SECURE_ATL macro in some methods of ATL. As it is
executed all the times though there is also a non-secure block of code
defined alongwith it. Is there any way of disabling this macro...as ...

Could someone please explain why the following doesn't compile. This turned
up as I was programming yesterday.
Thanks,
Zany

I have hit a problem where my .exe appears to have too many global variables
and functions
(http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=137548&SiteID=1). This
means my applicaiton dies during startup as the main .exe assembly cannot be

Because vc8 uses MFC80.dll, and many PCs don't have these libraries...
So I wonder if I can use vs2005's IDE to write a vc6 program? I mean
just using mfc42.dll, etc...to make it runnable on other machines.
Thanks in advance.

After waiting for Stan Lippman's book on C++/CLI forever,
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321174054/qid=1137406793)
it seems to have dropped off the planet.  Was publication canceled?
I know Stephen Fraser's book just came out.  Any others?

I'm trying to define a class, A, that has a List<> of interface
instances, IA.  IA has a property pointing back to a class A instance,
so I need to forward define IA in order to use it in A.
#include "stdafx.h"

I have a problem with a project under VS 2005.
I downloaded 2 projects, one is a MFC .lib project and another one is
an .exe that uses this lib file. I need to edit those projects, but
first of all i tried to compile them.

The version of dumpbin that ships with VC8 will disassemble x86 code.  Is
there a version of dumpbin that ships with VC8 that is able to disassemble
AMD64 object code?  Or is there some other solution.  I have compiled both
x86 and x64 versions of a binary using VC8 and I need to ...

Could anybody shed some light into the following paradox :
I am creating a static library under VS 2005 VC++ Win32 using MFC. If
compiled right after creating by a wizard, a release version of the LIB
shows the size of almost 2 MB - without any contents of mine ! The

Does C++/CLR have any limitations comapred to VB/C# for web develpment?

I have received a source code project written in C++ VS.NET 2003 on .NET 1.1
that compiles without a problem.
I have opened this source code in VS.NET 2005 and the Log wizard says that
Errors 0 and Warnings 0.