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Hi all,
I want to upgrade from VC6 to VS 2003 or 2005, but need to be able to keep my existing projects in VC6 until they are fully working in the new compiler. Are there any issues with installing both systems together or are they best kept well apart?
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Hi,
I have all 3 installed on my system, without any problems
codito ergo sum
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I am using VC6 and VS2001 together, no problems.
Except that, if you try to run your VC6 code on a later system, you will be told that it needs to be altered first. If you allow this to happen and open your old programs on you new IDE, I don't know of any way to go back.
So until you choose to move your code over, it is certainly best to keep the projects apart. I had a fairly large project on VC6 and decided to use VS2001 on it. This was fine for a long time, but a week ago I finally ran into some problem that I could not resolve, and decided that the time had come to properly update my project. So I made sure I had an extra backup, renamed the old folder, created a new project in VS2001, and transferred all the source files over.
This tooke a morning, what with having to change a lot of include paths due to VS2001 using s different layout from VC6 for its files. But it was certainly worth it in the end to move to a newer system. Cleared out a lot of junk files in the process.
But I still use VC6. For one thing, there is inforamtion in its help system that you will not find in VS2001 and, I assume, in all later versions. And from time to time I come across code written for VC6 which I would not want modified.
I would upgrade to VS2005 if I could find a supplier. Whether I would then still use VS2001, I don't know. Buying it was a bit of a mistake, being a new IDE at the time. More mature code tends to have bugs / deficiencies that are less glaring.
Shraddhan
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Shraddhan wrote: I am using VC6 and VS2001 together, no problems.
Except that, if you try to run your VC6 code on a later system, you will be told that it needs to be altered first. If you allow this to happen and open your old programs on you new IDE, I don't know of any way to go back.
But you can - with a slight overhead of work, maintain the old as well as the new Project files and Solutions.
This way, your codebase can be used from both IDEs.
The work-overhead comes from activly *not* using new features of the VC7.1-compiler, keeping the VC6.0 comments for the class wizard intact, and from maintainig two sets of incompatible compiler output directories.
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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jhwurmbach wrote: But you can - with a slight overhead of work, maintain the old as well as the new Project files and Solutions
Well, I suppose that this is a possibility. But unless there is a good reason to be able to use both IDEs on the one solution / project, I prefer to make a clean change over. (And what if I had both IDEs open at the same time on the same project? Chaos...)
Shraddhan
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Hi Guys,I badly need a C++ source code for jobshop scheduling (6 jobs on one machine)using the genetic algorithm where the objective is to minimise the overall setup time between the Jobs.my e-mail adress is mpavis4@yahoo.co.uk. Pls help!!!!
-- modified at 6:02 Monday 23rd January, 2006
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Hey thanks for redirecting me to Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory.
It looks like i have new material to study. really have to pull nights.
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No problem. I've used (hand-coded) GAs for a couple of applications but not for jobshop. There are a number of free libraries around, IlliGaL is a good starting point. Writing a simple jobshop GA shouldn't be very hard.
Good Luck!
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Hi
It looks like you are a student and have to submit assignment. right!
well it looks like you too have to pull nights now to complete assignments. right
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Hi guys
i want to know how to draw a chessboard on a form. any idea?
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I think the best way to do that is to make your own custom control (derived from CWnd). Look at the section in the MFC for miscellaneous controls to get some examples of custom controls.
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well thanks for reply.
i am trying to create sudoku solver and needs some grid kind of control.
Opps! it looks like i have to pull nights again.right!
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That's funny because some weeks ago I started to make a Sudoku game and I made already a small control for the grid. There is not a lot of things in it and it is still a little bit uggly but if you are interested, I can send you the code (not now because it is at home). But I stopped the project because I couldn't find a good way to hide some specific cells in order to have a specific solution grid (generating the grid was ok).
But don't expect a control with excellent graphics 
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i am happy to know you too are intrested in sudoku. well i'll be glad to have a look at your grid control. pl. send it to this email add(vikramsharma @ gawab.com)
thanks again for help
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Cedric Moonen wrote: That's funny because some weeks ago I started to make a Sudoku game...
I love that game, and play it every chance I get. I even suggested to our local newspaper to start running it. The editor said I was the first to suggest it, which is a polite way of saying, "Snce the interest is so low, probably not." About a month or so later, I saw the first puzzle! Whether I had anything to do with it or not, I'll never truly know.
"The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever." - Native American Proverb
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opps! you are really good at information providing. good man. you are mind blowing dude.
you redirected me to heaven.
thanks a lot.
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maintain a matrix to draw the Chess board
i see! nice idea. can you let me know how to drow this way.
I guess :
-create 2D array.
-fill it
-create rect, do maths, then create rectangles.
but is this ok for sudoku like game where i have to insert numbers in the rectangles.
pl. let me know.
thanks for idea and reply
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Look at the link Rage submitted you. It seems that this control is far more better and complete than the one I made. I suggest that you download the source code and have a look at it.
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ok. well thanks for your reply and advice. you guys are really angels. you helped me a lot.
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Hello,
I can assume the issue I'm about to raise, was raised before, but I couldn't find it. So I apologize from ahead if it annoys anyone.
I'm working with the Visual Assist of the whole tommato group, for a while, and only lately I saw other tools of the kind, like CodeRusher, and ReSharper. I'd like to know which tools of the kind do exist and work with Visual Studio 6 (not the .NET) and if there is a comparission of the advantages and disadvantages of those tools.
Thanks a lot,
Guy.
If you can't beat them, join them!
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When I used Visual C++ 6 sometime back, I always used two tools to enhance the IDE features. Those were Visual Assist and WinTabs.[^]
There might be some others as well but these two were sufficient for me at that time.
Regards,
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