Good afternoon,
We have an app that uses a CMap with CString types for values and
accepts LPCSTR as the parameter.  The object being created is on the
heap (created dynamically). A leak detector we have is picking up the

I'm trying to deploy an application having a couple of dlls. One of those 2
dll's makes user of MSCV80(d).dll, namely the latest version (the one with
Visual Studio SP1, version 8.0.50727.762).
The problem is that the correct dll does not normally exist on a win XP or

I tried to validate file path without calling file creating functions.
Is it possible? How?
Regards,
-aims

The code below yield different results by just moving the _T("Phone")
to second line.
    struct { TCHAR* ColName; CString& Value; } Columns[] =
    {

Excel won't start.  When clicking the icon (or any other excel files) I get
the message Microsoft Excel for Windows has encountered a problem and needs
to close (with the send error report option).
I have already tried uninstalling and reinstalling MS Office 2000 but still

Is there a Win32 call for retrieving the path for which the current / active
DLL was loaded (I don't care to use GetModuleName as it only gives me the
path to the host process EXE).
thanks

I am working on MFC base SDI application using vs2k5. When I close my
application, exception shows up in "wincore.cpp" line 449, statement
"lResult = CallWindowProc(oldWndProc, hWnd, nMsg, wParam, lParam);"
exception message is,

What is the best way to get a set of unmanaged structs to C#.
I have the following structs:
typedef struct
{

I have a VS2005 C++ MFC project which #imports a type library.  The
goal is to introduce some managed code eventually, but for starters I
just need to set the /clr compiler option and build the project.
The type library is imported like so:

I know that I can call Win32 API functions in a Windows forms
application by specifying each function header individually like in
    using namespace System;
    using namespace System::Runtime::InteropServices;

If I have a class A that has a virtual public function DoSomething()
Class A
{
   public:

Plugin.ocx file continues to be removed when we run MS Updates. The databases
are 2003 and forms don't work without the plugin.ocx.  Tried making the .ocx
file read only, but that didn't work.  We have to copy it back into Windows
System folder each time we run updates.  Any ...

After several hours without result I think it's allowed to post my
question here ;)
I want to extract icons out of .exe's. I'm using VS 2005 PRO .net. I'm
eading everywhere that I shall use ExtractIconEx. But it's impossible

I read OLE DB section from MSDN and it is mentioned that to implement an OLE
DB provider is very simple and easy (is it true?). But from the minimal
support function list, I find there are a lot of minimal functions. Not that
easy!

I am using Visual C++ 6 Professional in Windows XP. Which new developer
product should I use under Vista Business operating system that continues to
use the C++ programming language? I  understand that Visual C++ 6 is not
supported in Vista.