my application runs in 2 processes on the same machine. Now I need to send a
string from one process to another. One process is managed other is native.
The communication should work on any computer (even with firewalls)
I could write file in one process and read it in other but ...

I am writing some C++ classes and want to export them as .dll files so
other users can import them and use the methods I have provided in
those classes. I have two types of classes : unmanaged (or regular
classes) and managed (__gc classes). I already know how to use

I am looking for a message compiler to build .mc file
It suppose to be within VS I can't find it and I can't find it in Platform
SDK
Any clue?

I need to develop plugins for various applications like Photoshop, Visual
Studio 2005, Word, Excel and 3dsMax.
Where can I find guides, faqs, introduction or tutorials for plugin
development?

Can someone explain to me the difference between static_cast<T>(v) and
(what's the term for it?) old-style C cast?
 UINT value1 = 0;
 int value2 = (int)value1;

from msdn: "Closing a thread handle does not terminate the associated
thread. To remove a thread object, you must terminate the thread, then close
all handles to the thread."
Through the documentation it seems that the thread proc must be exited

I just found that there is a problem in vc2005 regarding to time_t and
localtime. See code snippets belows. Using this code segment, I found that
when ut is 86200, the corresponding output is 1970.1.1 7:56:40, when ut is 0,
the output is 1970.1.1 8:00:00, when ut is 86400, the ...

I've written a managed class that makes use of stl vectors of a few
unmanaged structs for data handling/manipulation, but I'm getting a few
very strange errors.  I get an
"Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference

People, does the managed version of C++ in VS.NET offer the same facilities
the C# version offer like garbage collection and mamorry management??
Thanks,
Scirious.

Under Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, I want to use a library from a third
party that does not use ANSI C prototypes in its header files. I must
tell the compiler to accept K&R (pre-ANSI) C. Someone knows how to do
that?

I am used to programming in embedded C and I want to input a binary number
into an int.
usually I would just use bin as a suffix or b as a prefix
int x = b001 or int x = 001110bin

In Managed C++ one could use __super to invoke a base class function.
Has this been changed to "super" or is it still "__super" ? Looking
through the MSDN help I could not find a hit for just "super".

   How do I find the state of a mousebutton.
   I need it to return 1 if it is clicked and 0 if not.
   or something similar
thanks for your help

I have developed a static library which I am using in one of my application.
In my library I have created my own heap and all the objects (class objects)
in my application are created in that heap. What I have observed is that in
my library at a certain place when I call ...

/COMMENT has been removed from the linker that comes with VS2005, and
use in source code of:
#pragma comment(exestr, "this is a string")
gives the message: