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Usually 'code speed' of C++ is better than C# one.
Usually 'code development speed' of C# is better than C++ one.
BTW don't argue about these arguments at the pub or your life will be in serious danger.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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DragonHeart335 wrote: if this is the wrong forum for this discussion
Strictly speaking this discussion belongs in The Lounge[^], as this forum is for C++ technical issues. However, as you are new to the site you are given a bit of leeway.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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C# is likely to get you into programming for a living faster than C++.
The C++ market is good for me right now, but I've been doing C/C++ since the 1980s.
It was a tough market seven years ago, but evidently my competitors moved to C# and left a vacuum...
But still my advice stands, in C# I think you're more likely to find work at a trainee level, which will get you working for a paycheck.
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Your first mistake is to ask the question in this forum, as all the answers will be based on our personal experiences and locality. What you really should spend time doing is looking at the job market in your local area to see what the requirements are. Employment agencies will sometimes also have some useful information to help you. Forget worrying about what is the latest hot language and concentrate on what employers are looking for.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Well, that is actually my goal. The job boards for this area show a variety of requirements from SQL, C++ to PHP, etc. for web design. It seems like alot of the government-related jobs require .NET experience.
I know everyone's experiences are unique to them, but I have been 'out of the game' for a long time and asking questions of people who are obviously doing it for a living gives me a 'feel' for the market. Thanks for all of the replies. They have been a tremendous help. 
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I can see why governments want C#: they rarely care about performance, but they do want tools to automate work, and they want them now, not in two years. 
Until now I've succesfully avoided C#, but I talk to C# developers all the time. I gathered that developing Windows applications, especially the UI and database parts, is considerably faster than anything you could put together with C++. That said, .NET means you're stuck with Windows and MS. Keep in mind when making your decision that you will be marrying Windows and MS together with the technology, for all the good or bad that brings. That may be of no consequence in the short run, but if MS ever moves it's focus - and Windows 8 (Metro) looks like they might - then demand for C# may drop. (just an uneducated guess - there's too little information yet to be sure)
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Well, that is what I figured. I don't think I could get an FBI clearance anyway to do the DoD stuff. lol. I feel that C/C++ is the defacto standard language and will be around for years to come. I mean, after all, C# was built with C++ syntax, correct? And most other popular languages use the 'C-style'.
I did a little project in 1999 where I built a HTML search engine/parser using Perl. That was alot of fun. And Perl is another of those languages that is C-like (or more like scripted shorthand C). Its a cool language. I'm sure it wont be outdone by PHP, but we'll see.
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Hi
I am a mainFrame Assembler programmer when displaying a storage dumps I always think in terms of bytes However the data is in Fonts
Is there a particular method for font I show use for proper alignment or maybe a fixed type Font
thanks
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For technical data, I suggest you use a "non-proportional" font, such as "Courier New". That is what I do for logs and dumps anyway.
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(If I got you) Yes, you may choose a fixed width font (is the simplest option) like Courier ( Lucida Console, etc). You may also have look at DrawTextEx[^] function if you want to use proportional fonts for the purpose.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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Hello.
Are there web sites with free audio books about MFC or windows programming with c++?
Maybe audio books with other programming languages.
Thank you for your help.
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Hi,
You can find more books here.
http://ebooks.allfree-stuff.com/eBookShow.php?tEbookID=890&tCatid=45&tCatName=Visual+C%2B%2B
Cheers
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Please make your links clickable.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Nice collection of programming books on ebooks.allfree-stuff.com.
Thank you for your answer.
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Do you know of programming audio books?
Thank you .
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I'm new to C++ and have been tinkering with creating a small app that uses the CreateProcessAsUser function (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682429(v=vs.85).aspx). Now, everything works just fine and dandy when I'm double-clicking my .EXE to run it. The issue is that if I execute it from a Command Prompt that isn't the current directory, it errors.
This is what I'm currently using:
CreateProcessAsUser(
hPrimaryToken,
sFileToLaunch,
lpCommandLine,
NULL,
NULL,
FALSE,
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE,
NULL,
lpCurrentDirectory,
&si,
&pi
);
I've got "lpCurrentDirectory" set to null, and so I thought that would solve this. Apparently it doesn't. Can anyone shed a little light on this for me? Thanks!
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It would help a great deal if you were to disclose the exact error that you're getting.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I don't really get any errors as things are currently coded (I'm still new and figuring things out, so I still need to beef up on my error checking skills). The .EXE I compile just fails to succesfully execute the other process with the parameters passed to it. And I don't know how to debug/test things within Visual Studio as if they came from a command prompt other than the directory where the .EXE resides.
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One thing you can do is call GetLastError after the CreateProcessAsUser function fails:
DWORD Error = GetLastError();
Then look up the error code, and that will tell you why it failed.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It looks like I get an error code 3, the system cannot find the path specified. Anyone have any idea what I'm setting incorrectly?
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I would verify the file name of the program that you're passing, if that's not found, it would give that error.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yeah, but like I said in my first post, if I make a shortcut to the .EXE file and put the parameters in there, it works just fine when I double-click the shortcut. If I then Copy/Paste that info to a Command Prompt, it fails. So I'm passing the same info to the .EXE. It just seems to be the fact that the directory the Command Prompt is starting from is affecting things. I'll do some more digging, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
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I'm not clear on some things:
When you refer to "the EXE" which program is that?
When you say you paste "that info" to a command prompt, what info?
Maybe you are not putting a fully qualified path, and the function can't find the target program.
List the following information:
1. What is the full path to the program that calls the "CreateProcessAsUser" function?
2. What is the full path to the program that it is attempting to launch?
3. Give the exact command line that you are using with all options
4. Tell the exact path from which you are entering this command line
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 5-Jan-12 19:53pm.
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I figured it out. I had coded my app to accept a command line argument for a file path, and to allow a path starting from where my app resided. So once I checked the file path being submitted, and added the full path onto any partial arguments, things worked.
Basically, I just had to make sure my app was using the full path to the file it was launching.
Thanks for helping point me in the right direction!
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