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You are correct, he asked for an "array of characters" and I assumed he wanted a string.
To return an array with no predefined terminators or size, you could do one of several things.
1. Create a custom class to deal with it.
2. Instead of using a return value, use function parameters
void SomeFunction(char** pszValue, int& iLen);
This would be good if the function needed to determine the length and allocate the memory.
OR
void SomeFunction(char* pszValue, int iMaxLen);
This would be good if the function just needed a pre-exising array of max size.
3. Use a byte array and use the first N bytes to specify the length.
I am sure there are many other ways to do this also.
Matt Gullett
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I guess technically speaking there is a difference. PASCAL strings i think have a runlength encoding byte at index zero. I've always considered them to be synonymous while using Visuall C++.
your bad is my bad brutha!
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr
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I want to copy/move a file to another dir, how?
What api to use?
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CopyFile or CopyFileEx to copy a file.
MoveFile or MoveFileEx to move a file.
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TCHAR pszFrom[1024] = {0};
TCHAR pszTo[1024] = {0};
SHFILEOPSTRUCT shfo;
GetDlgItemText( IDC_SOURCE, pszFrom, 1024);
GetDlgItemText( IDC_DEST, pszTo, 1024);
ZeroMemory(&shfo, sizeof(SHFILEOPSTRUCT));
shfo.hwnd = AfxGetApp()->m_pMainWnd->m_hWnd;
shfo.wFunc = FO_COPY;
shfo.pFrom = pszFrom;
shfo.pTo = pszTo;
shfo.fFlags = FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_SILENT;
SHFileOperation(&shfo);
See MSDN for details...
"Needless redundancy is the hobgoblin of software engineering." - Peter Darnell
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Yeah!
This was exactly what I was looking for!
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hello..
anybody can help me? Please help me to solve this error problem :
"error C2504: 'CRecordset' : base class undefined"
tq..
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From MSDN
Compiler Error C2504
'class' : base class undefined
The specified base class was declared but never defined.
This error can be caused by a missing include file or an external base class that was not declared with the extern specifier.
The following is an example of this error:
class A; // error, A is undefined
class A {}; // OK, A is defined
class B : public A {}; // the error is detected here
You may need to include afxdb.h somewhere
Christian
I have come to clean zee pooollll. - Michael Martin Dec 30, 2001
Picture the daffodil. And while you do that, I'll be over here going through your stuff.
Picture a world without war, without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they would never expect it.
Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOzI live in Bob's HungOut now
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your solution =
put #include <afxdb.h> at the top of your file. and read your msdn next time.
: Wherever you go, there you are, and you wish you were somewhere else :
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I have a server that runs on a configurable number of threads, that process incoming requests and write them to database. Is it advisable to use one OLE-DB connection using the CDataSource class to send all the concurrent database updates? My question is: does one SQL query on the connection block another, if SQL server itself does not cause locking? or put in different words, do the connection wait for one command to finish before starting another?
Thanks for any help ...
Thomas
modified 29-Aug-18 21:01pm.
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Hello.
I posted a topic about GUI Programming a few days ago. I was trying to decide if I should go ahead and take a Visual Basic GUI Programming college course. I am most interested in C++ as most people have gotten from my comments on C++.
With the release of .NET, is Microsoft still using MFC for GUI? I would like to know what is the best approach to learning GUI Programming using C++ and still be able to implement GUI easily using .NET. In other words, I want to know what book(s) I should buy to learn GUI using C++ that would apply to .NET, if not emphasizes .NET.
Thanks,
Kuphryn
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when focusing on .net (=winforms), use c#
Why?
1) It seems a lot easier:
visual studio .net does not have a winforms (.net gui) gui builder for c++ (manag. extensions) at all (what a shame!), whereas there is one for c# . (OR AM I TOTALLY BLIND  ) Nevertheless, you can of course still use c++ as a fully qualified .net language.
2) c++ does still have superior features, but when it comes to targeting the .net platform for every-day programming, it is just-another.net-language, even though a good one..
On Win32, C++ always had the advantage of basically being superior to VB (especially regarding complexity just kidding).
mfc is basically for win32, does a good job (for win32 programmers). And will continue to do so as long as win32 is supported (which means like, hmm forever). Just one note: As a c++ programmer coming from Qt, I was actually shocked about the programming style. Since I wanted to deliver standard-compliant winapps I still chose mfc.
use c#
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Thanks...an insightful message.
What is the difference between MFC and Win32 API?
Many members recommended Programming Windows, The Definitive Guide to the Win32 API -- by Charles Petzold and Programming Windows With MFC -- by Jeff Prosise. I believe the Petzold book emphasizes C, and not C++. That is the reason that is keeping me from considering buying that to strart GUI programming. As for Prosise's book, again, I do not know about the future of MFC with respect to .NET. I want to make sure that .NET and possibly future releases of popular C++ compilers such as Visual C++ and Borland C++ Builder will support MFC.
Ultimately, I want to stick with C++ as a primary programming language. I do not know until when, but I believe it will be a long,long time until someone design a language with the same low-level (C) and high-level (OOP) features like C++. With that said, what GUI programming technique using C++ will give me the most options now and in the future?
Kuphryn
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MFC is a thin layer around the Win32 API.
Eventually becoming an MFC pro does imply knowing the Win32 API. For more complex thing in MFC, you just HAVE to know the Win32 API to make things happen.
Some People say MFC violates a lot of the principles of object-oriented programming, my personal experience is that it just doesn't offer any real abstraction.
Some people have written their own classes around the Win32 API because they got fed up, most do 70% of their things in MFC and hit Codeproject.com to find solutions to the remaining 30% the cannot figure out on their own without knowing Win32 (someone like ME )
It is simply a completely different thing writing ISO-C++ (but again, WHO does that) and using C++/MFC.
.NET is a platform, Win32 is a platform. Writing apps even in C++ for the .NET platform (winforms) is a lot more elegant, writing apps in C++ for Win32 using MFC (do not know WTL) forces you to know the insights = straight C Win32 API.
Sticking to C++ seems a rasonable decision, you can start programming winforms with c++ today, using managed extensions.
just my 2 cents
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Is there any benefit to using .NET Framework over Win32 platform such as MFC? What do you mean by "elegant?" Are you implying, for example, 100 lines of code to 20 lines of code for the same job?
Kuphryn
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For now I would strongly recommend learning C++ and then learning MFC for GUI work. Why ? Because there is a ton of free information on how to do it available ( look around you ). Also, you'll get a copy of VC6 pretty cheap now .NET is available.
I'm not saying don't ever learn .NET/C#, but I am saying that learning where there are a lot of resources will be much easier, MFC is not going away anytime soon, and once you've learned one, the other will be easier because of the basic principles you'll have under your belt.
Christian
I have come to clean zee pooollll. - Michael Martin Dec 30, 2001
Picture the daffodil. And while you do that, I'll be over here going through your stuff.
Picture a world without war, without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they would never expect it.
Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOzI live in Bob's HungOut now
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Thanks.
I believe there has been a misunderstanding about my ".NET." When I said ".NET," I meant Visual C++ .NET, the latest upcoming version of Visual C++ (7.0).
I am that much closer to buying the book on MFC by Jess Prosise.
Kuphryn
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For some info about VC 7.0 & MFC read this article in MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnnews/2001/sept/vcnet/vcnet.asp
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Well, what bothers me is that there is no good tool for GUI at all. MFC is not productive enough (just see what you need to do to change a color of a button, for instance  ), and VB and .NET are slow and dependent on huge runtime.
I vote pro drink ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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I am writing an application for the PPC and I have a question regarding CView::OnInitialUpdate(). On my desktop version this method is called and I have put my initializations here for my pages on my tab that is displayed on the main view. It works just fine on the desktop. In the ppc version the OnInitialUpdate is never getting called. Does anyone have any ideas as to why? Is there a windows message I can generate to get it called? If so where?
Thanks for the help,
-Eric
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Hi there,
I have installed the NT Option pack over NT 4.0 sp 5, and use the personal web server to run ISAPI extensions of my development. The problem is, once a web page accesses a certain extension (DLL) and it is loaded into memory, I can't seem to unload it (stopping the web service doesn't help). This of course prohibits changing the code and trying again, since I can't replace the DLL in my SCRIPTS folder, unless I reboot. 
Any Ideas?
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Do you only stop the webservice?
I't might help if you also stop the iisadmin service...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Yep, you need to reboot.
In .NET though, this has been fixed from what I've heard.
Giles
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You can change the ISAPI caching option to prevent ISAPI DLLs remaining in address space:
Open Internet Service Manager, and view the Default Web Site properties. Select the Documents tab and press the Configuration... button. On the App Mappings tab, deselect the Cache ISAPI applications checkbox.
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derek@lj-oz.com
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when i was writing a filter a while back, after each build i'd rename the dll eg filter002.dll. Install that, and remove the config for the old ones in IIS. it still has a file lock on the old ones, but doesn't process them.
Then, every now and again you can reboot and clean up all the old versions.
Sorry to dissapoint you all with my lack of a witty or poignant signature.
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