All of the development that our project is doing is done for Windows 2000 or
greater.  All of the Visual Studio Wizards for C++ default the _WIN32_WINNT
to Windows NT (0x0400).  Is there a way to make the wizards default to
something other than _WIN32_WINNT?

Hi i have to program a code to perform 1 of 5 functions at the users
request, I have got to the part where i have to program the equations
and i cant seem to get them to link together. Basicly when the used
enters his radians i was to link to a sin x function to calculate the

My app uses a component (msxml3 and some other compression com components).
The app crashes if its required components are not installed on a machine. I
want to check, while app running, if there is some decent way of knowing if
I dont have the required component on the machine ...

I recently decided to do the right thing & write accessor functions for my
class member variables instead of having them public and introduced a rather
nasty bug. The class below shows the error - basically if you forget to add
the parenthesis in the call to function X() then the ...

i am a software engineer working on UNIDRV printer driver using
Microsoft Plug-ins IPRINTOEMUI & IPRINTOEMUNI using VC++ as editor, OS
win 2000 server.
i am using NTDDK driver development kit.

I've just discovered the msclr::lock class in the C++ Support Library online
documentation.  This seems like a much cleaner way to implement thread
protection than using monitor::enter/try/finally/monitor exit.  However, I
cannot get around one of the warning messages and am ...

I wrote a windows application using VC++, in the program form and  I use 1
tab control that contains many tab pages.I hope to control navigation on
these tabpages by pressing a certian button, hide and show specfic tab pages
according to the user actions by pressing another ...

how to do convert a std::string to LPTSTR (chat *) datatype
regards
Abhishek

The following code generates errors when compiled using VC++ 7.1. However,
gcc 3.2.2 and comeau online have no problems with it. Is this illegal code
or a compiler bug? If it is the latter; was it fixed in the latest release
of VC++? Are there any workarounds for my version?

Monitor::Enter and Monitor::Exit must be called in pairs.   Is there a way
to determine if Monitor::Exit has been called so that it does not get called
a second time?   The psuedocode below illustrates a situation I would like
to implement.  Essentially there are 2 monitors and ...

I tried to find the access time of a file using stat() function.
but the following C code in windows vc.net 2003 always give
the same access time. the same code works correctly in linux gcc.
do I miss something?

i build a project in VC++7.0, have so much error...:
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET\Vc7\atlmfc\include\afxtempl.h(149): error C2678: binary '==' : no
operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'const

I know how with VC8 you embed your linker generated manifest into an exe
with a resource ID of #1 and into a dll with resource ID #2.  But what do
you do with the linker generated manifest for a mixed .netmodule?  Do you
need to embed the it into the .netmodule?  If so, with what ...

I thought I read somewhere in the MS documentation that XML documentation is
compiled in C++, but the C++ code editor obviously doesn't do anything
interesting when I enter "///".  What's the deal with C++ and XML docs?  Is
there an add-in available to help with entering XML ...

I would appreciate if someone helps me.
I am reading a book called MS visual c++ .net step by step.  I am using
Visual C++ .net version 2003.    I am trying to learn reading from file
using system::io.  I have been asked to build the application, open a