visual-studio-2003

Windows 7 XP Mode and Visual Studio 2003

Hey all! So with Windows 7's XP Mode, will this allow developers to run Visual Studio 2003 on Windows 7 without hacks? Thanks all! -Steve ...

Use gSOAP for VS 2003/C++ access to SOAP Web Service with WS-Security?

We have an upcoming project to allow an old platform that's only extensible with C++ / VS 2003 to call a SOAP-based web service that uses WS-Security. My Google research indicates that gSOAP could be the best way to go. I'm looking for validation and/or alternative suggestions. ...

Assigning vector::iterator to char array post VS 2003

I am trying to get some C++ code originally written in Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) 2003 to compile under VS 2008 and I am having trouble finding an efficient solution to assigning a vector::iterator to the beginning of a char array. I know that iterators went from being a defined as a simple pointer type (T*) to a class type between VS...

Where to download Microsoft Visual c++ 2003 redistributable

I have an old dll that uses the Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 (7.1) run time package. Unfortunately I don't have that DLL around anymore. Short of reinstalling VS2003, is there another way to get the run time redistributable dll? ...

Weird debug problem: There is no source code available for the current location

I have a WinForms app in a single project written in VB.Net 2003 (legacy code). There is a MainForm and a SecondaryForm that is run by the MainForm. When I run the app thru the MainForm, I can debug with no problem. However, if I just run the SecondaryForm, I get the debug error, "There is no source code available for the current loca...

cross dll debug

Hey, Im using vs 2003. When I try to debug some program that uses several dll files i can debug (put breakpoint - without question mark) only on the cpp files of the project that creates the dll and was the last one that i compiled . breakpoints located on others dlls (that are part of the program and located in the same solution) are m...

Contracting: Accepting a job using older Visual Studio 2003... Career Suicide?

I'm a contract developer and have been for the most part of 14 years. I just took a stateside lead developer role managing a small offshore team of developers. Strike 1 was the environment... lots of contractors slammed into a small 16'x14' room. Seating is at tables. Hardware is so-so. I was able to overcome this by using my own la...

How do I create a 64-bit native ATL C++ DLL in Visual Studio 2003?

I have a 32-bit ATL C++ in-proc COM server soultion. How do I port it to 64-bit Windows? I mean how do I make VC++7 emit 64-bit code? Is it possible with Visual Studio 2003? ...

Visual Studio line deletion

Is there any way in Visual Studio 2003 that I can delete a line without it being copied into the clipboard? There are instances when I want to copy the first line of a block of text and then delete the following n lines but this then puts the last line I deleted into the clipboard, which is very annoying. I have come from a brief keymap...

Visual Studio 2003: collapse all projects upon startup

I have a solution with about 150 projects. When I open the solution, half of them appear to be randomly opened. I want to open the solution with all the projects collapsed. I want to uncollapse only the one I choose after opening the solution. How can I do this? ...

Installing - microsoft visual c++ 2003 redistributable package - Getting Error

When I'm trying to install "microsoft visual c++ 2003 redistributable package" getting an error "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the windows installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing,....." error message. How can I solve it? ...

Override a File Checkout in Visual Studio 2003

There a way to override a file checkout in visual studio 2003? I checked the file out myself and would like to override it. Chris ...

Problem with cross casting in Visual Studio 2003

I am using Visual Studio 2003 to compile and run following program. There are 4 assignment operation where I expect 2 of them to run ok and 2 of them to raise exception. There is a dynamic casting inside overloaded = operator which expect to fail during non proper cross casting (Casting from Apple to Orange or Orange to Apple). But in m...

Need plan of action to upgrade graphics toolkit in company's applications

My job is to upgrade all of our applications that use OpenSceneGraph (an openGl toolkit) version 0.9.9 to the latest and greatest 2.8. Well quite a few caveats come with this task: 1.) After version .9.9 there was a major overhaul the the core OpenSceneGraph (OSG). Commonly used functions and classes were added and removed. Simply put, ...

MFC's GetClientRect and MoveWindow don't preserve size?

I'm using MFC for Visual Studio 2003. I have an Edit Control with ID IDC_COMMENT_EDIT. In the following code, after my first call to GetClientRect, I don't expect the value of rc to change. CWnd* pWnd = GetDlgItem(IDC_COMMENT_EDIT); if (pWnd != NULL) { RECT rc; pWnd->GetClientRect(&rc); pWnd->MoveWindow(&rc, TRUE); pWnd->GetClie...

VB.NET 2003 copy log4net.config to bin folder

I'm using VS.NET 2003 and VB.NET. I have placed my log4net.config file in the same folder as the source code and I want to automatically copy the log4net.config file to the bin folder just as the app.config file is copied to bin. Is there an automatic way to do this? ...

Help required in configuring Crystal Reports

Hi, We have an application which uses VS.NET 2003 and Crystal Reports version 9.1.5000.0 We are migrating this application into a different server. We had reconfigured each and every report with the new connection details and in the process of reconfiguration we had changed all the SQL Server DB connection details to new server. But wh...

Visual Studio 2003: 'The object is currently in use elsewhere' (the IDE, not my code)

I'm using Visual Studio 2003 working on an ASP.NET application. Quite often, just in the middle of typing code in the Visual Studio Text Editor I get: The following exception has occurred: InvalidOperationException: The object is currently in use elsewhere. This is not my code running, i'm just working in the IDE. Sometimes it doesn'...

Will Visual Studio 2003 and 2008 fail gracefully if I uninstall the MSDN library

I use google as my primary reference so I don't need a local copy of MSDN; and am trying to free up a few GB of disk space. Before I pull the plug I'd like to make sure that my fatfingering the F1 key won't end up freezing visual studio up for even longer than it does with MSDN installed. ...

Available options for compiling a large ASP .NET application

I've started working on an existing, large ASP.NET project and I'd love to get some feedback on better ways to organize the project as a whole. This question was somewhat related but doesn't really have enough specific details to help an ASP.NET newbie like me. The site isn't terribly complicated. There a number of themes that can be ...