I have ported the visual studio 6.0 code to VS 2005. The project gets
builded sucessfully. The application runs sucessfully in my system. I
have put the builded dlls and exe in windows 2000 pc and windows xp
machine. I am able to register the exe in 2000 pc without any problem

I have some strange problem and I would like to know if it is a bug or not :
In my projects, in 2 different .cpp files, I use the same name to define a
local structure:
file1.cpp :

Since currently we aren't allowed to have compiled XAML files embedded in C++
apps I'm using Markup::XamlReader::Load to dynamically load XAML files. This
works perfectly fine with external files but I'd like to be able to load a file
specified in a .resx resource.

I've been following the tutorial here to learn Windows programming (along
with the help file from the Windows Platform SDK):
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/opengl_windows_programming.html
and when I try compiling the code given in this tutorial (even using copy

I trying to port a WDM driver in VS.Net 2005. I had several difficulty,
but it's one of them I still did not found any solutions.
My code use the function _alloca to allocate space on the stack. When I
compile my code with the include of <malloc.h> I have no problem but

The following code snippet is a part of s/w which is downloaded from
net. While compiling this code I got the following error.
..\..\snmplib\snmpTCPDomain.c(6) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open
include file: 'sys/socket.h': No such file or directory

I have sources written on linux quite long ago.
They are compiled good on current linux machine.
but not in VS2005.
The cause of  problem is #include<getopt.h>.

I have built a VS 2005 C++ application (ported from VC++ 2003).
It's a WinForm app.  It runs OK on the development system,
but when I try to deploy it on any other system, all users gets
an error box, "Application configuration Error. Try re-installing the

Hi Friends,
        I want to know how to free the unused  memory in Windows. When
I run my application the RAM free percentage keeps on decreasing . At
one point of time my application crashes when the system resources goes

I wrote class library that contain a struct stX and a new class library that
get the first class library as referance and implement a function foo that
one of its parametrs is of type of the struct stX;
I wrote an application(exe) that get the first class library as a referance

Hey There,
   I have some code that will go through a couple of sections of the
registry, and create a list that contains the "DisplayName" values of
all the apps that are listed in the Add/Remove Programs list in the

I run into a cstring related link problem in VC7.
My solution has 3 projects, one MFC exe, two MFC extersion DLL.
the two MFC extersion DLL export functions which use CString as
parameters.

I am using VC++ in .NET 2003. Using a SQL ODBC connection to Sybase to
execute sql statements.
If I have commented out a part of the SQL , I get an syntax error from
the ODBC connection. I am using the Execdirect call.

It seems that windows file systems can have files dated to 1617, and
unfortunately if you call _findfirst/_findnext on such a directory,
msvcr80d will assert.
Is there some provision for changing msvcr80d so that this assert