I've written a few event handler methods in my time. Most of them are of the
general form:
void EventHandler( Object^ o, EventArgs^ e )
{

I haven't worked with Visual C++ before, so I'm in a little over my head
on a project I'm doing.
I'm using VC++ 2003 unmanaged code, and I am getting this linking error
that I don't understand:

I'm currently trying to install VC++ 2008 Express Beta 2. It downloads all
the files just fine. Then it begins to install .NET Framework 3.5. This
starts, but at around 5% done according to progress bar it stops
progressing. At this point it hasb't moved for 15 minutes.

I can read the Font^ of a Button(->Font). But how do I change the Font of a
Button, or at least it's size?
I'm programming using MS VC++ 2005 Express in /clr managed mode.
Thanks!

I am porting my code in VC++ to VC.net i.e managed. I have seen somewhere
that i need to convert my char* to String*, but String * doesnt perform
pointer arithmetic like String* p; *p++=' ';
So please suggest as to what i have to do? Am i doing wrong by converting

I have the below C# definitions and function call to an unsafe C++/CLI
function in an external dll. When debugging the calls step by step everything
seems to work, but if I just run everything through without stopping I get
the following error:

If I use 'Open With...' to open a file (menu option) and choose a program I
wrote, how do I write a MS C++ 2005 Express application to respond to this?
I tried doing this with a program of mine and I got a system error message
(crash). I would assume the filename would be one of ...

Last week, I got reports back of errors in a patch I let someone try
out (release dll, but not from the build machine).  Turns out it was
some Debug::Assert statements firing.
In umanaged code, I'd always understood that assertions were only

I m a new user of VC++.NET. Can you please give me some good ebooks
link for this? I want to learn it much sooner.

I want to create a new Bitmap which is a portion of an existing Bitmap. For
example, if I have a Bitmap that is 100x100 in size I might want to create a
new Bitmap that is equivalent to the one located at (x,y)=(10,20)
(upper-left hand corner) and is 50x50 in size of the source ...

I'm new (but please do continue reading) to C++ in the VS environment
and wanted to create a standalone program (or preferably, a static
library, compatible with other Windows compilers) that;
1. Takes an URI as an argument.

I have ran into a small problem which I am not sure how to resolve.   I think
its a bug, but I searched the web and newsgroup and no one else has brought
up the issue.  So I think just that i'm a noob when it comes to dot net.
Basically I cannot use the UrlEncode from VC2005 C++.  ...

I'm using the Bitmap class which has built in scaling for images been drawn
not at their original size. And it works amazing well, and I'm VERY
impressed!
However. Is there perchance more than one method this uses that can be

When closing my multithread application, before stopping the main thread I
wait, in this main thread, for a secondary thread to exit. I use for it the
function WaitForSingleObject  which never end.
When debugging I can check that this secondary thread is returning zero and

Hi group
what can i do to know if a given .exe or .dll file, is com or not?
thanks very much in advance, Carlos.