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Remove Filter  | can anyone tell me if it is possible to connect to a database (for example an access database) from visual c ++ 6.0? And if one can how does one do it? Is it some wholy complicated thing or is it as easy as doing it in visual basic 6.0 …  |
| | i am trying to connect to an MS Access database but i am new to C#. I have looked at, amongst others, Paladin's response to dark omen about connecting to a database and since i have connected to a database before in Visual Basic most of it makes sense to … |
| | I have received a library in dll format with a .h header file. When I instantiate an object from one of the classes I get an access violation error. It is a run time error; the program compiled bug free. The program even runs. It is just at the exact … |
| | hi. i am looking for a free web hosting service. i did search daniweb archives for people who asked similar questions but some of the sites mentioned seem to no longer work while others are just plain unsuitable. i am planning on developing a website which keeps track of Daniweb …  |
| | can you guys recomend a couple of books which deals with the classical data structures and algorithms in C sharp please?  |
| | i would like to know if windows xp can work with windowss CE over a TCP network. if i have a client server program and i put the client portion on the windows XP or 2000 or vista machine and i put the server portion on the CE machine then … |
| | i would like to ask a few questions about windows CE and the compact framework and how it interacts with normal C# and the normal dot net framework. i have an embedded computer which has windows CE and the compact framework on it. this compact framework sounds if it only … |
| | hi. i would like to ask if the following operation is possible. imagin a device which has a number of rs 232 ports. in this case we shall take four. then imagin that you have two keyboards and two computers connected to these ports. now is it possible to write …  |
| | hi. i am planning on assembling a computer by buying and putting together motherboard, processor, memory etc. The problem is an operating system. windows vista costs a fortune. But worse is my intended use for this computer. i am planning on learing the C programming language on this computer mostly. … |
| | hi. can someone tell me if there is some way to open or start execution of a program by typing in some sort combination of keys on the keyboard? For example if I have a program called program.exe and it is stored on the hard-drive is it possible to start … |
| | i hope that this does not sound like a silly question but can someone please tell me why we return an integer from the main method in c++? if program execution starts and ends in main then what is the point? main calls other mothods and receive return types so …  |
| | hi. can anyone tell me if there is any build-in functions which converts hexadecimal to decimal and decimal to hexadecimal in C#?  |
| | Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the following code or if it is even legal? I am trying to access the text in a multitude of textboxes without having to go to each textbox manually. so i named them all similar enough. their names are all variations … |
| | is it possible to have global level methods in c#? I have several forms and they are going to use roughly similar logic. i can design methods which can work with them all depending on what parameters are passed to them but how do i make these methods global so … |
| | Can someone tell me how to convert variables from one type to another in c#? Specifically i need to display an integer in a textbox. the textbox does not want to display it since the textbox has text and the integer is an int. |
| | i am very new to c# and dont understand all of array passing to methods. chief reason for these misunderstandings is the keyword param. param can only be used in a method header once and is always passed by value. also it works on a number of individually declared variables … |
| | How about a game of math and logic puzzles. Ask a logical or mathematical question and if no one can answer within a certain amount of time the asker gives and explain the answer. I shal go first. This is an older puzzle so some might have heard it before. … |
| | is there any way that one can place code in C# in a procedure or a function? I have code logic which is going to be executed many times over and instead of recoding it twenty times over I want to put them in functions and procedures so that I …  |
| | I am using the system.diagnostics.process command to run a program. the program receives a number of parameters. can someone please tell me if the process command of c# can receive more than one argument? and how do you specify them? when one runs this command from the command-line you seperate … |
| | can anyone give me more info on the system command? It allows you to execute dot exe programs from your code. I am in particular looking for return values. Can one get the system function to let the called program write its output to a variable instead of writting it … |
| | can anyone tell me the relationship between smartwin and wxwidgets? i am looking for books on smartwin but there seems to be none. there is however one book on widgets. smartwin source code contains many "widget" words so i am wondering if they are the same thing. if i buy … |
| | I have both smartwin and devc++ on my computer. I am trying to develop a graphical user interface but when i try to import the smartwin.h file it fails. This is because the dev c++ can not see it. It says no such file or directory. The devC++ standard library … |
| | I have three questions about MFC and their use in Visual C++ 2005. Firstly. Can one actually use the MFC in C++? I have taken a look at the internet and almost all the information seems to indicate that it, along with win API, is for use with C. There …  |
| | can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong here? My program does not print any output after the attempted bucket sort. It only prints before. It is almost as if it does not run to its end. |
| | Is the common language runtime the only way to develop graphical user interfaces in c++? That had been what I thought until I read a gaming thread( how to develop board games in c++ ). A dll, which i have to use, refuses to work with the clr (i am …  |
| | I 've read Narue's answers in another game thread but there are still some things I would like to ask. what kind of c++ works best for games? can one use any kind. the main reason for using c++ is, i assume, to take up as little space as possible … |
| | i have a form which i have to protect with a password. this form is called from a user form which does not have any passwords on it. which means anyone can access it. in order to accomplish the security i placed a password in an access database but the … |
| | i have taken a look around and it seems to me as if visual c++ is an outdated technology. I mean it appears as if no one is using it anymore. Even Deitel, which sells some good textbooks, list them as "old products". Is it worth the effort to learn … |
| | I am using VC++ express edit 2005 but I can also switch to C# 2005 express. I would like to know if there is a cmd similar to the shell function which is found in visual basic. The VB shell cmd basically allows one to execute a dot exe file …  |
| | I am currently working on a project which requires me to instantiate objects of a class. The class is in a dll which is accessed via its header file. I suspect that the dll does not work with visual c++ express edition which I am using. I would like some … |
| | can anyone tell me the difference between visual c++ express edition and visual c++ .net? It would apear that they are the same. Both seems to use the dot net framework. Are there any significant differences? And also how do they differ from other types of c++ such as ansi …  |
| | I am writting a program which receives args on the command line. Before they can be used however they must be converted to ints. I am using vc++ express edition and I have tried the _strtoi64 function but I cannot get the parameters to this function right. It is specifically … |
| | I am using VC++ express 2005 and I have a dll and two header files. The one header file inherrits from the other and the dll contains the source code. Can someone please tell me where do I write the include commands for these header files? I can create and … |
| | I am new to c++ and I am using visual c++ express edition. I am spending quite a lot of my time doing excercises and am using the command line to compile them. I have now reach the stage where I am seperating the header files and the .cpp files … |
| | Can someone please tell me what to do with a library object file in visual c++ express? Another programmer developed a set of classes with header files but there are no .cpp files. There is a .dll and a .def along with a library object file. The developer told me … |
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