I tried using GetCurrentThread to get the Handle of the current thread
but it keeps returning 0xfffffffe for all the threads that I access it
in. This is not the correct handle. Am I missing any prerequisite
calls or something else?

I can no longer write anything to CD.  Also although I have 2 CD drives in my
computer, only 1 is listed in Device Manager.  When I try to write to CD
through Windows it prompts me to put in a CD even when one is already there.  
When I try to save audio files through Itunes it ...

Is there a way to automagically export all the symbols in a dll?
mingw has an argument --export-all-symbols.
I'm not afraid to write some scripts to do my work, so suggest anything :-)
The use case is running unit tests against a dll without building the unit

This is more of a C# question than a C++ question, but my best chance of
explaining it is via comparison to C++.
Ok:
In C++ you can forward declare a type.  Then references to that type can be

This might be a stupid question, but I want to do the equivalent of
passinf an arguement via the "out" keyword in C#, But in CLI.  SO I
basically want to pass a managed object from c# into a CLI layer, make
changes to the object in the CLI layer, and have them reflected in the

Working in ASP/VBSCRIPT, I have a snippet that denies access to a page if
the user's IP does not belong to the local network:
<%
Dim RemoteAddr

I'm writing a CLI layer into my application, and I have several ref
structs.  Now, I've come into a situation that screams for a common
interface, but because the structs are ref, I didn't see a reason why
I couldn't have the structs implementing this interface.  ANd it does

                 I am still having trouble with my hotmail inbox messages
with the scroll bar..... I have a hotmail account ( Windows Live Beta), when
I
open my e-mails I sometimes would like to print it out but when I do it

I wonder if you could help.
The event handler code below, will allow the user to change the phone number
and write it on a label of a message box. I want to replace the message box
with a dialog box.

I added a serial-USB converter to my laptop, it appear as USB serial
port COM4, and I wrote an application to read 78k data from this port.
In my VC++ express code, I defined ReadBufferSize = 78k, and
ReceivedBytesThreashold = 78k so that I can get the whole data with

I have a database table containing a sparse mapping from an integer to
a string. I retrieve this table into an OleDbDataReader. I'd then like
to copy the data into a map so I can quickly find the string
corresponding to an integer.

I just create a simple C++.NET Forms project with a simple form and nothing
on it.  When it compiles, I get this error:
  fatal error LNK1256: ALINK operation failed
  (8013144E) :  Unexpected exception processing

How can I mix std::wstring and .NET String? I'm finding the .NET
documentation frustrating.
Graeme

Hello Newsgroup,
I have a link error that I did not manage to fix.
I basically consume a VC 8.0 C++ dll that exports a class with a
method containing CString declaration as follows:

I have a native singleton in a C++/CLI dll. To compile the dll itself I put a
declaration of the instance variable into the cpp file (otherwise the linker
complains with a LNK 2020).
I now want to use the singleton also from outside the dll project. So I just