I'm a VB programmer by trade (hold the tomatoes please), and I have a very
small C utility that I need to compile into a windows executable.
It's a widely used utility in academia for meteorological purposes, but
generally in the Unix/Linux environment.

Consider the following code:
---
template <class T>
class TMyCWndWrapper : public T

I tried your advice, and replaced "ifstream" with "std::ifstream".  I also
replaced instances of "ofstream" with "std::ofstream".  Those syntax errors
were resolved.
When I added "std" to the following statement:  m_InFile.open(m_sFileName,

Hi Frendz,
      I am working in VC++ MFC. The application comsumes lot of memory
resources. Can anyone help me out with an idea of how to reduce the
memory consumption. Now am working to implement Smart Pointers for

I'm trying to learn programming and I've got quite far so far, but I've run
into a few problems, the main ones involving DrawDibDraw.  First, 12 bytes
seem to be missing from "bitmapinfoheader" that I see in the hex edittor.  
Second, I'm puzzled about the difference with the Dst ...

lets say I have a iterator of the type:
list<string>::const_iterator itr;
lets say its at some position in a given list. Now I can goto the next item
by simply doing a itr++. But I want to increment more than just 1. Lets says

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2006/12/08/managed-extensions-for-c-to-c-cl
i-conversion-tool.aspx
It's not perfect, but people have found it useful.  The tool is totally
unsupported, but includes source code so those needing a more elaborate tool
can use it as a starting ...

I have been wading through using SetupDi... API to get a device path to use
in CreateFile so that I could open a USB HID device.
I can now get a device path, but when I try to open for
GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, I get an error that only tells me "Access

I have an unmanaged C++ API that uses virtual functions, like this:
class A
{
public:

This is my first attempt at using the Terminal Services API, and I'm
stumped.  I can't get WTSOpenServer to work for the life of me (this is
in VS2005, by the way).  Specifically, the argument has me baffled.
It's my understanding that it wants a LPWSTR (at least on this machine,

What I am trying to do is write raw data to a USB to parallel adapter
to control an external device (as I dont have a parallel port) using
VC++.net or C#
The adapter is not a true parallel port and is hence treated as a USB

We are writing a MSI installer using a setup project in Visual Studio 2005.  
All dll's are built with VC 8 so each dll uses a Manifest embedded in a
resource.  The installer does the following.
1) install VC8 runtime on the target machine,  

This is my first attempt at posting to the newsgroup.  My apologies if I
have directed this question to the wrong bunch.
I am trying to use SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail function in order to get
a handle to a USB HID device so that I can open it using CreateFile.

It seems something's going on with regard to the way Visual Studio 2005
implements function pointers.
Once upon a time, it was possible to have unmanaged code as follows:
__declspec(naked) void HookJump(...)

I am trying to have a label show the X and Y positions of the mouse, but I
am getting bogged down with string handling
void MyForm::OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs *e){
   // Display the x position