I am a C++ newbie. I developed a Win32 DLL that creates a number of threads,
which can throw exceptions. When an exception is thrown on a thread in Win32
DLL, I want to catch that exception on the main thread.
Is there any way to throw an exception on one thread and catch it on ...

I'd like to ask, if there is some common dialog box for selecting directory
(like CFileDialog class).
Thanks.

In Visual Studio Team System 2008 (cl version 15.0.21022.8)
I can't reproduce the problem in a mini project.
class1 name is picoDB::MemBlob
class2 name is pixtek::tools::Blob

If I have a Visual studio project configured to vbuild againts one SDK.
How is the normal procedure to build that solution against other different
SDK that I have installed after previous application was created.
Is there in VS any menu or any option to configure a new SDK to add ...

I'm seeing incorrect (I think) behavior in the event of an exception
thrown in a native C++ library.  Basically, the stack appears to
unwind correctly if the caller is native, but incorrectly if the
caller is /clr.  Consider the following C++ static lib:

If I have a class that includes an instance of a struct as a member, how do
I initialize that struct?  I can't find a syntax for the constructor
"initializer list" that works.
For example, suppose MyStruct has 3 int members.  I've tried something like

why I can not override it?
This line: virtual String^ ToString() override = Object::ToString;
produces this error: cannot override base class method
'System::Object::ToString'.

Are there any tool or other methods which could be used to monitor which
class/method exe is accessing a DLL?
Now I met with an issue that when I provide the DLL I developed to a 3rd
parth application, it will crash sometimes and I suspect the 3rd party

I'm writing native C++ using VS2005.
I have a FILE* for a file opened with fopen. I want to get the WIN32
file handle for this file so I can call GetFileTime on it.
I can get the descriptor number with _fileno, but there doesn't seem to

I've made a .NET wrapper of a C++ toolkit using MC++ (perhaps I should now
take a look to C++/CLI).
The 32 bits version works fine on Win32 and 64 bits version works fine on
Win64 .... but .... 32 bits version fails to run under 64 bits (the C++ 32

In C#, an array marked 'readonly', as in:
public readonly bool[] array = new bool[8];
would allow individual members of the array to be modified while
protecting the array reference itself from being changed.  That is, I

I have two C++ structures.  Both structures include a parameterless
constructor that initializes the structure members.  These two structures
define different ways of looking at the same data; one structure exposes the
data as an array of bytes, the other exposes the bytes as ...

I have written a program using MS VS VC++ 2005 Express, /cli pure. Upon
compiling it it works fine in the GUI development environment. It also works
fine as a Debug stand-alone. ut I had an odd behavior when it comes to the
Release varsion when I renamed its project directory ...

How can I integrate the pre-compiler Pro*C/C++ in Visual Studio 2005.
I'd like automaticly my development process now a edit embedded SQL
source code and make a pre-compiler in Pro*C/C++ and insert the result
into visual studio project.

I have the following parent class public definition:
abstract public bool IsValidForInspection(out string[]
strFailureReasons);
In my managed CPP class I am trying to understand what needs to be