... a few things about what I feel would help make me more productive in my
environment. I think that others could benefit too. Is there an email or
place where I can post my ideas directly?
Back in the day there were programs that allowed you to enter items for

I'm interested in learning C++.  I'm not sure exactly what this means.  I'm
currently a VB.NET/C#.NET programmer (both Windows Forms and ASP.NET).  I am
totally clueless when it comes to C++.  I've tried creating new projects and
even that is confusing.  I'm unsure of the ...

(all unmanaged c++)
I have a char *. I allocate it using:
char * t = new char [ any_size_here];
at some point I want its length to grow to accomodate copying more

when compiling with debug information, I get an error:
fatal error C1067: compiler limit : debug information module size exceeded
The error is caused by a very large enum (about 2000 elements) which comes
from a referenced component.

the class:
public __gc class Vector {
private:
Double y, x, z;

I'm trying to "port" a project from VC++ 2003 to VC++ 2005 (Express
Edition). This project contains the following code on several places (It is
not exactly this code but a generalization of what it does.):
vector<int> int_vector;

Is it possible, in Managed C++, to name/access visual controls an indexed way
like VB 6.0
Thanks,
Hugo

I m trying to create a C++ managed class to use it in C#. I m new to MC++ and
interoperability and I try to find a bug since a long time without succes,
maybe you can help me ?
(I have a sample project if you want to debug it, you can contact me at

I found a bug in VC++ .NET 2003 regarding default initialization of
arrays of primitives in a constructor initialization list, as detailed
in this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/msg/dab44a8b786b6a79

I receive this error message.  unable to display folder, error has been
detected in the file C:/_______________, quit all mail applications and then
use the inbox repair tool.  
How do I use this tool?

Is there any way to make #import use wchar_t as a Built-In type?
I have a .idl file that has some wchar_t parameters when run through MIDL
it produces a header file that also references wchar_t parameters, but
whenever I use #import on the DLL, which was generated in the DLL ...

I'm writing an ISAPI DLL [unmanage code] that calls into managed C++ code
(same DLL). I'm receiving the following link errors:
EditResponse.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int __cdecl
stricmp(char const *,char const *)" (?stricmp@@$$J0YAHPBD0@Z)

I am using GDI+ to load a tiff image and write a string to it and save the
tiff image to another file.
I can save the image with only LZW Compression and not abel to save with
CCITT4 compression. If I use CCITT4 compression I get an invalid paramter

What is the difference between Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition and Professional Edition? Programming wise, there is no difference, right?
Thanks.
Wanjun

I am using instances of DateTime within my application
and i need their values to be used as selection criteria in an SQL
select clause.
So i need them to return a literal string representation of themselves