I'm attempting to apply Registration-free COM Activation Context API
and I'm having a heck of a time doing it. The problem seems to be the
way the API works - or doesn't work, as it were. The CreateActCtx does
not seem to pay proper attention to the lpAssemblyDirectory in the

      I'm writing because I haven't been able to find enough
information at the
book stores and at the MS web site on some of my questions.  Perhaps
I'm

Could anyone recommend to me any good books or online articles that contain
in depth coverage of portable C++ development?  Specifically writing binary
compatible C++ interfaces and code that will work and be fully compatible
where code built under multiple versions of the ...

Is it possible to pass variable length parameters to a C function
exported in a DLL (i.e. using varargs.h without resorting to say passing
a delimited string to be parsed in the function)?
i.e. I want something like this:

I have a visual c++ project that refuses to build when the project is
in clearcase. It kept complaining that it could not open an include
file. I'm pretty sure that all my include paths are set correctly
because other files in the same directory could be included

I was wondering if someone might tell me how to rename a VC++.NET 2003
project or is there a product that might do it for me that I could buy.  If
I was using VC++ 6, I could use a product called copywiz, but it does not
seem to support VC++.NET.

If I will make
char* pHugeMemory = (char*)malloc( huge_number_of_bytes );
in some place of my program, and after some time my program will jump
to other processing place, that won't reference pHugeMemory location,

Can you tell me if the vcbuild $ALL is the same as the msdev ALL?  If
so, how do I use it?
I have a VS 6.0 command "msdev ProjectName.dsw /make ALL /clean" which,
I believe, builds all the .dsp configurations in the .dsw file. I'm

We use VS6.0 to support our automated build environment, and we'd like
to move to something that is currently supported. One aspect of VS6.0
is part of the "Generate Makefile" feature, which it seems was removed
in VS 2003. Specifically, that feature creates dependency (.dep) files

have been asked to do the following:
Create an application that will take an e-mail address entered by the
user into a field and, once a button is clicked, will take that e-mail
address and check it against the mail server for that address using

I have a program that parses 5 XML documents and from there it needs to
write a report.  At the moment the report is being written as a flat ASCII
file, but managers want the output to have pretty pictures and colors (damn
managers).  Which libs can I use to write to an MS-Word ...

I have the following warning:
warning C4345: behavior change: an object of POD type constructed with
an initializer of the form () will be default-initialized
Should I care (if yes, why?)

Sorry to bother everyone, but where do I go to discuss SAPI (speech
recognition) software? Thanx!

Hi, I have a VS2005 VC++ application which no longer allows me to add a
Variable or Function to a class in the project.  I attempt to add a new
(public) Variable called Temp123, and get this error...
Failed to return new Code Element.  Possibley syntax error.  New Element

In vb  I do:
Dim Ex As New Excel.Application
Ex.Workbooks.Open "c:\tmp\Book1.xls"
Similar code in VC doesn't work: