Due to license reasons, I recently purchase VS.Net for
ml.exe and C compiler. How do I compile C language that
can be run on Pure dos mode by using VS.Net 2003?
thx

I'm a newbie and confused: I want to program in C++ but don't know what
to buy. Present leaning is towards gaming, but everybody has to learn
the basics.
C++   What version is the latest? Is it part of MS Studio? There are

I went to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx
nice info, but.....I'm confused here......
Why so many VS? why not integrate the functionality of orcas into Whidbey?
better yet, why not just drop Whidbey......

My first post in this newsgroup. I've recently switched from Borland C++ to
VS C++ to work on a specific app written by someone else.
The "solution" projects and source code were written and developed on VS
7.1.

I have brought VB.Net and I am following the training exercise,"Lucky7".
The problem I have, is that the only build platform available is .Net.
How Do I add other platforms, like xp Pro and XP home, etc....
Thanks :)

I'm looking for a good book to learn C++.
After few years programming vb and vb.net i changed to C++
At this moment i know a little c++. The book im looking
for should contain info about general c++ programming (no

When I do a build,Ctrl-Shift-B from Visual Studio.Net, on the production
server, the dll gets created locally but not added to the production sites
bin directory. It use to work. But when I tried connecting to the production
server one time, I got an error message about the site not ...

i down loaded it is not asking for vb or VJ
it is only VJ any help?

Please excuse me if my english is not very good, but english is not my first language. I am working on a C# Web application project with VS .net 2003.
When I build the project, the following error message is displayed :
"Could not copy build outputs to the Web. Could not add 'c:\. ...

When my program run in debug mode, some exceptions thrown :
Illegal cross-thread operation: Control '' accessed from a thread other than
the thread it was created on.\r\nStack trace where the illegal operation
occurred was:\r\n\r\n\tat System.Windows.Forms.Control ...

The "Configuration Mangager" menu item under "Build" could not be found. And
sometimes it suddenly appeared. Could anyone tell me when could the menu
item be displayed?
Another problem is that how can I set different condition symbol for

I have Visual C++ 6.0,
 and I just got a new Windows XP system,
 replacing my old Windows 98 box, which was 7 years old.
Can I get the Platform SDK, DirectX, and MSDN disks

Using C++ in VS .NET, I can't find how to open serial ports for reading/writing.
More specifically, I am writing a VC++ .NET application (a "Windows Forms
Application"), and need to access a Serial Port (COM1, COM2, etc),
preferably by using standard file I/O ("stream" type access ...

In searching for something else, I found the following directory:
...VisualStudio\Vfp98\Wizards\Template
I installed Visual Studio Net over the top of Visual Studio 6, and I'm
guessing that this is probably stuff left over from the earlier

i found a project called PocketPCConsoleApplication in the new VS2005 Beta1
and i create a helloworld PPCComsoleApp
but nothing comes up in the emulator?
i wonder what can this kind of project do?