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What causes difference in VB6 app testing result when running from Dev machine vs installed?

Hi Guys, I'm new to VB6 but i'm currently in charge of maintaining a horror of editor like tool with plenty of forms, classes, modules and 3rd party tools all chunk together like the skin faces on that guy in the texas chainsaw massacre... What i don't understand is why i get different results when i run the app in debugging mode, vs wh...

Maximum length of a std::basic_string<_CharT> string

Hey all, I was wondering how one can fix an upper limit for the length of a string (in C++) for a given platform. I scrutinized a lot of libraries, and most of them define it arbitrarily. The GNU C++ STL (the one with experimental C++0x features) has quite a definition: size_t npos = size_t(-1); /*!< The maximum value that can be stor...