I've been looking for a new IT position, and so far, the majority of
work with respect to the Windows platform is C#/.Net, with some vb.net
requests every so often.  Even many of the C++/MFC/ATL position are ones
in which the companies are looking to migrate this to C# and .Net.  ...

i know this may be a newbie question, but i need to convert a  string  from
System::String^ to char*, in the msdn page tells how, but i need to set to
/clr:oldSyntax and i dont want it because in further editions of .net this
will be deprecated or so on.. .

I ran the wizard to generate default Windows Forms Application.   I
wanted to make it invisible, so I added the line "this->Visible =
false;" to the InitializeComponent function.  I rebuilt it and dang ...
it wasn't invisible.   What else should I try?

   I am new in  .NET and I am writing my first program in c++/CLI on MSVC
2005.
I add a PictureBox to my form and then using its properties I change its
image property to one image from my hard disk. it generate the following

I Have a workstation with AMD64 CPU’s and 6 Giga Byte RAM ,OS  Windows XP 64.
I have 2 problems with it:
1.I want my .NET application(VS.NET 2003 VC++7.0) to use more then 3 GByte of
memory,how to do? VirtualAlloc  can do it?

I got the following error while running an exe made in visual studio 2k5c++
(all native unmanaged)
---------------------------
Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library

Are there any differences between the version of C++/CLI as implemented
in Visual C++ 2005 and the ECMA-372 C++/CLI Language Specification of
December 2005 freely downloaded from ECMA ?
Asking this on MS's web forums brought the reply that only an MS VC++

hi!!!
i just started studyin programming so i m having small problems....
can any1 tell me how 2 write a program in vc++ to identify
palindromes...i cant get it to check digits other than ffirst nd last

I have a MFC dll in which one of the parameters is of LPSTR.
The declaration of my MFC dll looks like
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int WINAPI EXPORT  TestPInvokeFunc(LPSTR
szFileName, LPSTR szResult[])

Is there an easy way to pin a pointer that is a member of a class, and
leave that pointer pinned for the duration of the class's existence?
The pointer would presumably be pinned inside the class's constructor,
but maintain the pin after exiting the constructor.

Given this native struct:
typedef struct vendor
{
      char name[20];

I am writing a communications library which makes extensive use of the
STL and templates in general. I am using VC7 to compile because of
alledged better support for templates etc.
However, I have not been able to get a simple question answered. Will my

I have a Dell wireless notebook loaded with MCE 2005.  I want to record TV
and I have Comcast cable.  Do I need an extra TV tuner or will my cable box
act as a tuner and work with MCE?  If I do need to buy a tuner what's the
best way to connect it to the cable box?  There are on ...

With C++/CLI - VS2005, is it possible to have static constructors that
are automatically called when the owner assembly is loading ?
Otherwise, how it is possible to call it without creating an instance
of the class or calling a static field of this class ?

Can someone help by explaining why the following class will not compile
(VS2005), and what can be done to pass the function pointer to the "C"
method?
When I compile the following program, I get "error C2664: 'CMethod' : cannot