Whichone is the best among the following while proessing the data?
ODBC,DAO,ADO,OLEDB...please justify urself why ?
also let me know how to loas dll component to the workspace i
VC++.Net?

I have a assignment of vc++.net and sybase to populate data an
generate reports which is the best one?
is OLEDB more efficient than ODBC? i think OLEDB itself is a layer o
the ODBC..then how it can be?

I am running into a strange problem. I have perl script which reads the
"APPDATA" environment variable, and does some work on that directory.
When I a launch this script from Command Prompt, it works perfectly fine,
however when the same script is launched from a DLL hosted in a ...

I'm trying to use a third party library which is compiled with an older C++
compiler then the compiler in Visual Studio 2003. My project is a managed
C++ library and I use the Visual Studio 2003.
In the header files of the third party lib I can see that <fstream.h> is

I have some IP (intellectual property) concerns regarding IL code.
1). If I compile a native (i.e. 'unmanaged') C++ project (i.e.
application or library) using C++  and the VC7.1 compiler tools, how can
I be sure that it is native code (not IL) that is generated?

I have a set of C++ classes for which I want to provide a C API - and
compile into a C DLL, for use in an application that can only work with
a C interface DLL.
Any suggestions/pointers on how to proceed. Googling is not bringng

I want to create a GUI-less windows executable (i.e. an executable that
has no gui) and no console. The idea is to have this running as a kind
of daemon (it can't be a service, for reasons I wont go into here ..).
I can't seem to find any code that shows how to do this which is

Can somebody tell me what is a packed variable?
For example a packed 32-bit integer. Is it the same as unsigned?
Thanks

(me using visual c++ 2005, all native/unmanaged).
So my question is about allocating memory in one thread and using it in
another.
I think its good to explain as following :

I desperately need this functionality in the VC++ 2k5 IDE: If I'm in some
class's header file, lets say "portlistener.h", I press a key and goto its
corresponding cpp file, which in this case will be "portlistener.h". If in
*.h file it should goto *.cpp and vice versa.

any body let me know that, does vc++.net have ClassWizard or not?
if not how to add message handlers and components to the project?
please its very necessery as i am new vc.net IDE..
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i was wondering if anyone has any examples of access and sending info
to a telnet server (with and without login)
I was hoping to find some examples in unmanged code, but managed would
do.  I want to write my own class to do this, but would like a step by

I'm working on an interoperability project
I have a huge c++ MFC application that supports a plug-in interface
I'm developing a plug in in C#
sometimes the c++ pass invalid variants to the plug-in interface.

I'm new to C++ and have been chucked in at the deep-end.
I have a C++ console app that works fine.  All I want to do is write
to file however as soon as I include the fstream library and try to
compile VS .net chucks out errors, lots of them:

I have a very wired problem when I develop a C/C++ based application using
Visual Studio 2005.
#include <stdio.h>
typedef struct _S1 {