im using a ocx/active controls in winforms in visual studio 2005 c++
express edition.
Isnt there a way to embed the activex control so it can be distributed
with the resulting application, without the need to manually install

It can't be... say it isn't so...
Yes.. there is a fly in the ointment
This bug requires 3 projects... yes this is a real world production
issue not some tinker toy thing.

I would like to store the contents of a file into a string variable and
stored in a C++ DLL.
In the end, the finished product will just be the DLL and the user will
not see the file itself. Another program can then access this variable

The Libraries that I am linking with are compiled in Visual 6.0. I have
an exported CEPAttribute with the function
CEPAttribute::GetLineStyle(CString &_strValue). The project that I am
compiling in VC7 (2003) uses the CEPAttribute but doesn't call the

I have seen some articles on using unmanged dll's in managed c++, but
they all see to require knwing the paramters and structures of the the
dll functions to be called.
I have this freeware dll that provides socket functions, but there is

   Any equivalent message macros available in VC++ MFC for Keyup, KeyDown
and Key press, like ON_COMMAND for menus .. please let me know..
Thanks in advance..
-Pugal

    what is the difference between _stdcall  and __cdecl, is the stack
release issue much important.. and why other languages like java are not
worrying about these things.. any idea..
-Pugal

Can we create an Excel Addin with VC++.net?
We are developing an application in c# which interacts with Excel
application. The UI will be Excel and based on the inputs given through
excel I need to do calculations using managed code (C#). Most of the time is

I have created a .NET C++ forms application. I would like to call some
functions in an unmanged class that provides access to some underlying API
functions. The underlying class needs access to ATL (for example the CString
class). I created the app, added an unmanaged C++ class, ...

Is there a brief tutorial somewhere on how to use the VC8 linker to generate
a manifest for an isolated application with a dependency section for an
arbitrary dll?  There are some implementation details that I don't
understand.  Supposing I want to bind my application to a ...

All:
I need to use SerialPort class in .NET MFC application.  I need to
create a thread for write/read of the port.  Someone can tell me where
I can find a good example?  All the example using SerialPort class

how can i call one project function in other project within a single
solution.
plz tell me the solution

I'd like to port some C++ code to a .NET ClassLib for C# consumers.
Am using VC2005, .NET 2.0
However I find that If I simply generate a C++ ClassLib using the wizard...
// SimpleCLib.h

Please help! I have a drawing in Visio of a pipeline connected to a tank, I
want to show an animate continous flow in the pipeline and show the tank
filling, I have transferred the drawing to Power point to try and get the
animation working but I just cannot get it to work. What ...

Hi, I have a wchar_t pointer. Based on some conditions I assign string
literals to it and on some other conditions, I allocate memory and
assign it to this. Is there a way to find out while deleting if the
memory is deletable. I get an error if I try to delete this pointer