I need to fire an event from an unmanaged class.  If I declare a pointer
  to the managed class within the unmanaged class I get a compile error "
"cannot declare a managed 'm_pGps' in an unmanaged 'MyProgressNotifier'"
Any idea how I can do this?

I know about
EnableWindow(GetDlgItem( hDlg, IDCANCEL), FALSE )
which will gray a button in a dialog box.
But I want to make the button and some text to not show at all in one

I created appropriate registry entries(shell\open\command) . my simple
application lunching
with that particular extension .
problem 1

I'm currently busy writing an MSI custom action DLL, inside this DLL
I'm trying to open a file with the default associated program, if I use
standard ShellExecute call from EXE it works, but not from this DLL, is
there anything special that needs to be done to call ShellExecute from

Under certain circumstances I get:
First-chance exception at 0x7c812a5b (kernel32.dll) in LTMGUI.exe:
0xC0020001: The string binding is invalid.
First-chance exception at 0x7c812a5b (kernel32.dll) in LTMGUI.exe: Microsoft

I've a bunch of forms that I create on app startup. But sometimes they are  
auto disposed. I don't understand why, because I instantiate them by gcnew  
and does not delete until app ends.

When a user registers my software I save the information under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
This works OK except each username on the machine must register.
I just read the doc on the various keys available and none seen appropriate.

I'm getting a runtime error for the below program, though it compiles
fine.  The culprit seems to be the managed array--it doesn't exist.
What am I doing wrong?
RL

Several months ago i've asked some information about the best way how to
have some particular columns (progress bar, checkbox, images, color
picker,...) in a ListView component.
It seems that ListView is a complex component and a lot of people advise

I have a solution (VS7.1) which consists of several projects (about 10
projects) - a couple of these projects are work in progress (i.e.
uncompleted - and so do not build without errors).
Is it possible to exclude these (unfinished) projects from the solution

Dear Group,
i develop an app with MSVC++ 2005 pro. My app should not use any
installation. It's only a "packing out the zip and run it"-installation.
So i use private assemblies with manifests and DLLs in the app directory

I worte an OCX with events.   In order to allow the dialog box (or
whatever) to be updated by the event, I had to add a messagepump to the
event.
void MessagePump()

Here is my code:
void main()
{
    char *p="Hello";