I am designing an appliaction to stream video from video server in vc++6.I
have created buffer for storing the bitmap bits of video in application.Can i
create .wmv movie clips from these buffer?
In visual studio 2005 i can use Windows media format sdk for this

I'm using  Sleep(100) and that works OK.
However, it would be better if my app continued to receive and process
keyboard messages.
How can I pause the execution of code in one routine while letting the app

I created 2 functions which run in seperate threads. what they do simply is
that thread1 starts and does something while the thread 2 waits for it. Then
after thread1 is done, it resumes the second thread by calling SetEvent and
itself goes into wait condition by calling ...

I have the following:
1.A C++ dll (with no managed code whatsoever) compiled with visual C++ 2005
that links to libcmt.lib as its runtime library.
and 2.A piece of binary code (also compiled with visual C++ 2005) that I

I am developping an app using managed C++. I want to be able to do a
drag drop from the app to windows explorer. The files to be dropped
onto explorer do not exist yet, the files are to be created by the app
when the user does the drop into explorer.

I have a time saved in a time_t variable.
I'd like to be able to display the number of days since then but can't find
anything built-in that will help.
Failing that I'd like to display the date (only the date) that corresponds

My program gets a WM_QUERYENDSESSION message and asks the user if it is OK
to shutdown.
While he's thinking about it, Windows displays a box saying the program is
not responding, and if not answered shuts down my program.

I've been assigned the task of designing a distributed application from
scratch. I have no legacy applications to integrate or support. But I'm
faced with the question : Is visual c++.net a compromise when compared
to C# or VB.NET.

Hi I am trying to take input from the console and put it into an integer.
The code below is my attempt, it works, but is there a way that .Parse can
be used without referring to an existing variable (whose value would be
irrelevant anyway).

Is there some way I can do something like this
#if <running on Visual C++ 2005 SP1>
//SP1 code here
#else

I have an Assembly using IJW that uses a third party native library.
There are quite a few function calls that uses callbacks and pointers.
One of those takes a delegate: bool enumXXX(char * someData, unsigned
long lparam);

I have a question about the file Open dialog box.
I would like to be able to make the dialog box bigger by
selecting the bottom right-hand corner and dragging/expanding the
box.

My company has been using Borland's IDEs for years and we're just now
migrating to Microsoft.  I'm in the process of learning visual c++ by
trial and error.
I have created a test GUI app, and things are going well except any

I developed my previous project (an MFC project with managed
extensions) on VC.NET standard edition, it took some time to configure
it but eventually it worked.
Now I'm configuring a new machine with VC express.

My program gets a WM_QUERYENDSESSION message and asks the user if it is OK
to shutdown.
While he's thinking about it, Windows displays a box saying the program is
not responding.