visual-c++

one small doubt....please help

Hi Friends, i am using windows xp (sp2) operating system. when i used spy++ for notepad and wordpad and when i select menu items it is showing WM_MENUSELECT msg and if i clicked menu item it showing WM_COMMAND. but when i used spy++ for sql server 2005 and vs2005 and when i select menu items it is not showing any messages( i mean WM_M...

VC (win32) or WPF for developing a text editor

I have this confusion to develop this application in Win32 or WPF (.NET). This application primarily consists of a text editor (think of similar to the one in MS OneNote) with lot of customized requirements compared to a general text editor. I was thinking to use VC to work on this as lots of custom drawing is required. What do you guys...

Compiling OpenSSL on windows

Quoting the instructions for building OpenSSL: Then from the VC++ environment at a prompt do: nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak When I do this, I get cl /Fotmp32\cryptlib.obj -Iinc32 -Itmp32 /MT /Ox /O2 /Ob2 /W3 /WX /Gs0 /GF /Gy /nologo -DOPENSSL_SYSNAME_WIN32 -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DL_ENDIAN -DDSO_W IN32 -D_CRT_SECURE_NO...

Virtual inheritance - gcc vs. vc++

Hi all! I have a problem with Visual Studio 2008 concerning virtual inheritance. Consider the following example: #include<iostream> class Print { public: Print (const char * name) { std::cout << name << std::endl; } }; class Base : public virtual Print { public: Base () : Print("Base") {} }; class A : ...

How to open a PDF file?

I want to load a pdf file on the click of a button. In the OnClickButton() implementation I am writing the function which open the PDF file ShellExecute(0, "Open", "%s\\HELP\\RiverCADPro_User_Manual.pdf", NULL, NULL, SW_MAXIMIZE); The above code is not working.What else ...

C++ iterators breaking in Visual C++ but not GNU g++

I am trying to learn more about list containers and how to iterate through them, but it seems that g++ has no problem with it, but Visual Studio C++ pukes all over the place! #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <list> using namespace std; int main(){ list <string> data; list <int>::iterator it; data.push_back("fe...

program to show and hide a toolbar

following is the code which shows and hide a toolbar...the problem is that it does not displays the toolbar..and the showcontrolbar()does not work either.plz help... Is there any other way round??? I am using visual studio 5.0... #include<afxwin.h> #include<afxext.h> #include<stdafx.h> #include"resource.h" class myframe: public CFrameW...

Makefile and .Mak File + CodeBlocks and VStudio

Hey guys, I am a little new to the whole makefile concept so I have some questions regarding it. I am creating a project using CodeBlocks in linux, I used a tool called cbp2mak to create a .make file out of the CodeBlocks project (if anyone knows a better tool please let me know). Now i'm not sure what the difference is between .mak an...

Application configured incorrectly error C++

I'm new to c++. I made a c++ program using VS 2008 Professional. I started with the Win32 template that created a window for me. I compiled it on Vista 32. I brought the compiled exe to my old XP sp2 computer, and it tells me the application configuration is incorrect. Is there something im doing wrong? How do I make it platform independ...

Using VC++ to execute a shell extension

I'm working on a function to convert input files for my app to .ly files for use with LilyPond. What I would like to do in the conversion routine is go ahead and generate the PDF of the music. If I were to do this myself, I would double click the .ly file or I would right click the file and select "Generate PDF." I hoped that using Sh...

how to remove write protections of project and its files written in vc++/visual studio 2008

how to remove write protections of project and its files written in vc++/visual studio 2008.Or how to change attributes of files present in vc++ project ...

Challenge working with Visual Studio and VC++ ?

Dear Stackoverflow Readers, I have started working with C++ recently and am not comfortable with Visual Studio Development Environment and also I do not have proper understanding of MFC, Win32, ATL, COM Terminologies. From example point of view, I had taken a simple C++ program to see how it works with Visual Studio Environment and I ...

short enums on VC++ 6.0 (or VC++ 2008) ?

It would be very convenient to have "short enum" or "char enum" in VC++, as I have seen mentioned elsewhere for GCC etc. Is there some option in VC++ to allow this? ...

Trouble using Qt with Visual Studio

I am looking to do Qt development with Visual Studio 2005. I have built the Qt libraries for Visual C++ and have downloaded the Qt plug-in using the steps outlined here. I've set the QTDIR environment variable to point to the newly built Qt environment (C:\Qt\vc). However, when I start Visual Studio, I get the following message: Th...

DirectShow: ieee1394id <- does that also describe USB devices?

I am trying to understand a DirectShow library implementation. What is a IEEE1394-id in DirectShow terminology? IEEE1394 is firewire. Does it usually also describe ids for USB devices? it gets retrieved by IAMExtDevice::get_ExternalDeviceID() ...

Why are user types not highlighted in Visual C++?

I would like to have Visual Studio highlight the names of my own classes in the text editor. I have selected a color under User Types in Options > Fonts & Colors -- but strangely, this only works for Visual C# but not Visual C++. Any ideas what's going on? EDIT: I received some great tips regarding 3rd party tools in response to my pr...

How to set the picturebox style using SendMessage in win32

Hi, i want to set the style of picturebox using sendmessage in win32. i want a sample piece of code with enum values of setting style.. please please suggest me... i will be thank full to u guys.. please help me. ...

qmake and multiple MSVS versions

From Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt I run this command to generate .vcproj file: >qmake -spec win32-msvc2008 And get a warning message: WARNING: Generator: MSVC.NET: Found more than one version of Visual Studio in your path! Fallback to lowest version (MSVC.NET 2008 (9.0), MSVC.NET 2008 Express Edition (9.0), MSVC.NET 2005 (8.0), ...

Upgrading from VC2005 to VC2008 makes calls to native DLL fail

Hi, I just upgraded a C++/CLR projct that works as a wrapper around a native DLL (build with VC2005). Visual Studio upgraded and builds just fine - no errors at all. When I run some test methods inside the wrapper accessing the native DLL, the native DLL seems to work correct (response from native DLL methods are as usual). But as soo...

MFC inclusion in different flavors of Visual Studio

Hello, I learned via Wikipedia that Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express Edition does not ship with support for MFC projects. Does anyone know if the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 distribution ships with MFC support ? I imagine MFC versions for Win 7 are incomplete, but I only require basic/legacy MFC support for Win XP/Vista. Thanks ...