I have a project that compile without error on VC 6 (XP Pro service pack 2 )
but when i port to VC 8 (2005) then have error during compile as below:
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Compiling...

I am making an application in which if the second instance of the same
application is launched, it checks its command-line arguments and
passes them to the already running instance. I have been told by
someone that using named pipes is one of the most commonly used ways

I want to Enable/Disable USB drive programatically.
I dont to use devcon.exe.
If anyone knows some API please tell me.
Thanks in advance.

I am using visual C++ .NET 2005 for programming in C++. despite the
fact that my project contains a VC++ intellisense database,
intellisense does not work. What could go wrong. IN the same
framework, if I program in C# intellisense works just fine.

I'm developing a Win32 Console Application for a Smart Device (MotoQ).
All i need to do is delete a file with a known name and path.  I'm
under the impression that I have to use File::Delete( path ) based on
what MSDN is telling me.  Thus I need to include mscorlib.dll ...  I

It seems I cannot use #region and #endregion to hide those auto generated
windows form control declarations. They are available in VC# 2003 though. Is
it true that VC 2003 doesn't support #region and #endregion?

I am trying to use vector in C++ visual studio.net 2005. I do
#include <vector>, but the compiler does not seem to recognize the
corresponding code, when I define
vector<int> my_vector

I have included windows.h, but it still says
'InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount': identifier not found.  Why?
any ideas?
Thanks.

I think the current version of _vsnwprintf_s is broken, in ordinary Windows.
I'm not completely sure yet but it looks like this breakage is worse than
previously known Windows CE breakage of StringCchPrintf.  For Windows CE
breakage of StringCchPrintf, since the %S format died ...

In the past, I was using a MFC CEdit control to display logged data (A lot
of Data). The control seems to have virtually no limit.
Now, I'm using a .Net TextBox. When I reach about 32768 characters it
doesn't take any more data.

I have a project, which is an unmanaged .exe file. It runs good after install
it in a machine, which has no vs.net installed. But it has .net framwork 2.0.
But after we set the support clr/old syntax for this project. It compiles and
runs good in a developer machine, but when we ...

I'm coding up an application that has a native c++ layer,
asynchronously calling callback in a CLI layer.
We originally did this with static inline methods in the CLI layer,
but this solution only works with singleton objects.  So I have to

I had one doubt about C++/CLI
Can we have an internal class and/or Internal member functions in a C+
+/CLI assembly (as available in C#), if possible please let me know
how do we specify the access modifiers

I am studying VB 2005 express and think, very interesting projects can be
developed with it.  Before I step over and buy the VB full version, can
anybody tell me the difference of possibilities VB offers in comparison to
Visual C ++  or tell me whare I could find more info on it?

I am trying to build a multithreaded application in VC++, I have used
multithreading in Java and C# but never in VC++, I have done a lot of search
but for my surprise there is no built-in threading in VC++ as in Java, can
anybody suugest me am easy way to deal with threads in VC++, ...