Visual C

Debugging: obtaining symbol and line from address using .pdbfile
Paul wrote: I have code to obtain information on crashes which has been tried and [...] For both SymGetSymFromAddr64() (SymFromAddr()) and SymGetLineFromAddr64(), GetLastError() returns "Attempt to access invalid address." Thank you. Paul Perhaps you are missing the symbol files for Win2K ... 30 Sep 2006 17:23

convert int to LPTSTR
Hi, I tried to convert an INT to LPTSTR but without success. here is my code : //----- _itoa_s((UINT)HIWORD(udtVerBuffer->dwFileVersionMS),FileVersion,sizeof(FileVersion),10); //----- where : FileVersion is a LPTSTR Thanks a lot, Al. ... 16 Oct 2006 09:42

VC++2005 executables much slower than VC++6????
Hi, I am stumped on this. I am sure that I am somehow causing a managed C++ build but can not figure out how. Here is the deal. I am doing some micro-benchmarking just to get a feel for the speed of C++ vs. C# vs. Java. My expectation was that C++ would be the fastest which (using VC++2005) was not true whi... 2 Oct 2006 15:00

CString to const char*
Hi there, I am having some really strange issues with the CString class... For some reason it will not convert to const char* automatically, if I try manually I just end up with a screwed up ASCII string still containing 0 bytes from the UNICODE equivilent. char *pBuffer = new char[iString.GetL... 28 Sep 2006 13:28

Hooking Keyboard
I'm tryng to do something that should be simple but having the hardest time. Basically the NT service I'm writing needs to trap a keystroke, that it will use to detemine if the user is active. So I created a DLL that uses SetWindowsHookEx to trap WH_KEYBOARD. My service loads the DLL uses LoadLibrary and the... 28 Sep 2006 02:21

Loading image from stream
Hi there, I have a weird issue with loading an image from a stream and unfortunately my VC documentation only seems to refer to the .NET bitmap class... I am using the GDIPlus Bitmap class to load an image from a byte array using the following code... ----------- pCTeEntry.length conta... 26 Sep 2006 13:18

Intellisense
Hello, With visual c++ 2005 express Ctrl Space after 'name.' displays "has a type which could not be resolved" Is this a limitation of the express edition, Visual Studio or C++ in general. Why won't it display the member functions? Thanks. #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> #include <string> int _... 25 Sep 2006 08:49

graphics.h
hi all, i'm trying to build a program with graphics but its not possible in visual c only in borland what is the option for use graphics in visual c? ... 29 Sep 2006 21:33

ShellExecute thows First-chance exception
Hello, i have a small app with some ShellExecutes. for example this one: ShellExecute(hWnd, "open", "http://www.domain.com", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); Everytime i debug my app and this command is executed, the debuger will output the following: First-chance exception at 0x7c812a5b in explorer.exe: Mi... 24 Sep 2006 10:14

some headers seems to conflict the others
Hi everybody, I have a sort of strange problem, I need to search for a special file (perl.exe) in run time and searching the help I have found out CFileFind but it needs afx.h to be included. The problem is when I include afx.h some other parts of my program which were being built and working properly seem impossi... 23 Sep 2006 09:41