I'm an experienced C# developer that has very little experience with
C++.  Unfortunately, it fell to me to wrap some unmanaged c++ (itself
ported from ADA) to provide managed types that can be consumed by other
C# developers on my team.  So!  I'm trying to use Managed Extensions

I have an application that will run on WinCE and XP. In order to have the
WinCE virtual keyboard pop up when the cursor enters an edit field, the
following has to be inserted at the end of each dialog after all the edit
fields have been created:

'Nother question.  I have a piece of code that is using the MFC CDatabase
object to connect to a database.  It executes a SQL statement against SQL
Server using the ExecuteSQL() function.  This brought up the question of
capturing the exceptions that are thrown by the CDatabase ...

I use VS2005 - C++/CLI.
I have some kind of events in native C++. I want to raise .NET events
when my native C++ events occur.
So, I wrote some code for that but I have an C1001 error (An internal

This was an interview question: The size of an empty class is 1 byte. Why?
Should it not be 4 bytes? Because an invisible pointer "this" is part of
every class?

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelpp !!!
Can anyone tell me how the heck does VC++ create the ASCII 'ENQ' ???? I'm on
a project of programming a PLC devices. I need to send the ENQ ascii value
together with others data in a string into the plc. I'm also new in VC++ as

Probably a really simple answer to this, but so far I'm having trouble
locating the answer.  I'm writing an unmanaged VC++ app and I need to grab
the currently executing filename and file path from inside the application.
So if I am in the directory C:\Program Files\Test_Dir and ...

I get a C2811 error when I compile the following (with the /clr switch):
template <class T>
ref class Base
{};

I've used COM libraries in VC++ before, but now I need to create one.
It's easy enough to do in .NET, but I need to write it in unmanaged
C++.  Can anyone point me to a tutorial or some other reference that
explains how to create a C++ COM class in a DLL.

Over 6 months ago I reported a bug that manifested itself in a C1026 error.
The problem is caused because MS VC++.NET has a bug in it where it thinks it
is too complex if a single class has more than 142 STATIC members in it.
Microsoft aknowledged the bug was real, and said it ...

I am trying to compile some source files using makefile. While compiling I
am getting errors as shown below. Any idea how can I solve this problem. I
believe I need to add some preprocessor directives but I dont know which
one.

i use a StringBuilder for a large string.
After instantiation, MaxCapacity is 2.147.483.647 which is fairly large
enough for my purpose.
During my procedure, i get a System.OutOfMemoryException at

According to dumpbin, my extern "C" __stdcall'ed functions are not
decorated... According to depends they are not decorated... According to the
documentation, (and previous releases of vc++), they should be...
Is this expected?

Hi all, quick question.  I have an application I'm running.  There are some
"fatal" error conditions that could occur during processing, and I want to
exit immediately if one comes up.  When I put an exit() function call in my
code I get a message like this:

This compiles and runs successfully in VS2005:
ref class A
{
 private: