I have an MFC app that was originally built using VC++ 6.0.  I have built it
in both debug and release (both unicode) and run them both fine.
I recently converted the projects to VC++ 7.1 and also built both the debug
and release versions just fine.  The debug build runs fine, but ...

I'm trying to create a C++ command line program that will extract specific
lines from a text file and write them to another text file. E.g. If I want
the program to look for the word "The"(Always at the start) and extract the
entire line.

Hi, I have a c# application that needs to access c++ libraries, so it
does this by using a managed layer of c++ CLI.
Anyway, in the CLI function call, that calls the unmanaged function it
expects a boolean return value, which it gets, but the value changes!

I do the following to pick a font.
Each letter this creates is displayed in a small solid colored rectangle.
Instead, I'd like the background image to show around the letters
Is there an easy change that would make the area around the letters

Posted this to comp.lang.c++, where I was informed this was an
implementation issue/concern/problem.
Why is it that VS 2005, VC++.NET needs 12 bytes to store an int, when
it can be done natively with 4? Mind you, even on 64-bit systems the

Is there any way to know how many records a data reader returns, without
having to read each one and increment a counter?
I am creating an ASP.NET 2.0 project in C#.
I need to read data from the first record, if there is only one and count

Dvorak is always interesting, albeit speculative.  What hidden gem has
he found in Vista that helps developers?  It can't be .NET/CLI, that's
been out forever.
RL

I would like to know why I am flagged differently.   It is good that I did
not get the glasses or the red writting.
If I did anything wrong, please let me know so I can correct it.  I believe
using the word

//Hi there,
//I need help.
//If I run the program and entered 100 at the prompt, I will get 45
//(garbage).

hi.. Group,
is there anyone know how to convert wstring to BSTR?
thanks.

I am trying to get a good understanding of these concepts and how they apply
to code and classes (possibly different). As well as MSIL and Native Code
(x86 assembly).
To facilitate discussion consider the following code.

I have two C# libraries and a managed C++ library which depends on the
C# libraries.
I have several applications which reference all of these libraries.
Whenever I change from one application to another, the managed C++

I'm looking at a program I wrote long ago and I think there is much wrong -
even tho it works.
I know very little c and wish the learn.
Is BOOL correct with a dialog proc!

Has anyone tried to use Boost.Filesystem with C++/CLI? I'm trying to
get some code that worked correctly in my native application to work on
my C++/CLI program. The code is in a header file in a native C++ static
library.

//Hi everybody,
//I need your help.
//If I run this program I will get an 'L'.
//But I want to get the real number (76).