The following example illustrates something that's taken me a while to
suss out (debugging someone else's code :( )...
The crux is that the code compiles cleanly at W4, and the issue is
that I'm passing a property by reference to a function that's trying

I have a shell extension in VS 6. I am porting the code to VS 2005.
After porting, how can I register the dll from IDE?
In VS 6, there is a option to register control from tools menu but I
could not find the similar option in VS 2005. I am very new to this.

i need the fast power of STL and the connection to .NET and C#. I want to
use my C++ library in a C# Application. Does someone has the same problem?
And or has solved this Problem ?
If i use a non managed code i get an error, that i cand used a mixed type.

Exception Catching difference between VC++ and C#
In C# I have this:
            try
            {

I'm looking for a way to obtain the ACL for a specific registry key.  For example if I want the permissions of
  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
I would get something like
  Administrators    Full Control

I need your help.
I have MS Visual Studio .NET 2003.  I noticed that if I added a context menu
to a form.  It will not work, unless you add the line:
This ->ContextMenu = this->contextMenu;

I'm converting MC++ to C++/CLI and for some reason it's not cool with
static const System::String^
How am I supposed to have static constant strings then?

I'm working on a project where all the current code is written in
standard compliant C++ with no dependencies on any external libraries
except the standard library. The application is used to perform
simulations of thermal radiation and is highly performance sensitive

We are having an issue where .NET assemblies are inconsistently being
found/not found.  On some runs, everything runs fine.  On other runs, we get
exceptions saying that one of our assemblies was not found.  Also, if we
were to do a Search using Windows Explorer, sometimes the ...

When I add to my code this line
vcg::tri::io::Importer<CMesh>::Open(mesh,"mesh.ply");
I get a linker error.
Please help me.

I want to convert a vc++ console application having UI forms to a
dynamic library or a static libray in .Net, where can i find such
procedure for converting.

Hi, All!
What is the effect of using ^ with the managed type? I'm trying to create a
class library in managed c++. There is a class:
public ref class MyClass

Hi I have Windows XP Media Edition, would like to learn how to record my
granddaugter singing onto a CD, or if I have to download first onto the hard
drive.  Either way need help as to the steps to do either of these.

The MSDN documentation says that the GetLastError function can give
undefined behavior when compiling with /clr:pure switch. Does this statement
apply to both C++ interop and P/Invoke? If yes, does it mean that we have to
use Marshal::GetLastWin32Error to check the last error ...

I'm very puzzled by the code that VC++ 2005 generated for a simple
statement:
   unsigned short *a, b;
   b += *a;