IT & Infrastructure

Hi, I'm a VBer, I can't wite much C++ beyond "Hello Inclusive Multicultural Global Society" [ex-Pascal too], but I'm getting kinda tired of: (1) not really knowing what is going on in there (proxy and stub who?), and/or (2) having the feeling of missing something fundamental: for me it feels like hiring a self drive 7-tonner on a automatic driving licence, when I'm trying to figure out why my latest and greatest dog-food app. hangs my colleagues machine (what! you serously think I'd test my own work, hey I wrote it I know what it is like inside!) I'm a *big* *big* fan of this site mainly because I want to extend my knowledge; I'm out of my depth amoung these people. I think that skill-set enhancement is a pretty common desire amongst our (I'm including you, if I may) breed. The peer group have written some wonderful tutorials (go see, there's even VB), and are more then helpful when reasonable questions are asked. IMHO devotees of other languages go to other well known sites because that's where they would expect their peers to be. I'm off to www.csharpindex.com now (oooh infamy), perhaps I'll 'see' you there?! Kind regards Al. ATL, whatever that is, all the way!

hmmm... I'm in Win 2K now (IE 5.5) and the text is the normal size. Strange.

Hello, Well I don't know about what VB programmers do mostly but as for VB being used in commercial applications I find the possibilllity quite likely. Check out Steve McMahon's vbAccelerator: http://www.vbaccelerator.com/ "This site is here to help you break through VB's limits and provide some solid source code to base modern applications around. Everything here is free and comes with full source code." I agree with "VB *retard*", MFC is better than VB. I've done a few projects with VB and I like its easy syntax, maby a bit too easy... The VB runtime library is a bit big also, it can get annoying. Vb's best use is for VBA and for Database apps. -- Marty I can't wait to see VB7

The problem with that is that you get the message "Cannot create empty document". Find "BOOL CMainFrame::PreCreateWindow(CREATESTRUCT& cs)" override in MainFrm.cpp and add the line: cs.hMenu = static_cast(NULL); just before the return statement. Rebuild and voila! Menu gone.

They will not become unsupported. The OS uses I/O completion ports extensively within itself. It's a basic design of the OS to allow asynchronous I/O. (on NT that is)

have you tried KalenderControl2.SetCurSel( &CurrentCDate );

Do you mean all the stuff on the left under where it says "Free Source Code"? If that is where the articles and the tutorials are, then it should be easy enough to add a little note or something saying so. I think that something simple will be a big improvement. You are working too hard as it is.

Microsoft has a sample Help Desk system written in Visual Basic. Since it is now more than a month since this question was asked, it might be too late for this to help, but if it might help, I can try to find it again. I know there was at least one article about it a couple of years ago in the MSDN newsletter or whatever it is (was) called.

Hi Aki, The Netscape source was released some time ago (I'm not sure if they continue to release the source as they update their product however, you'll have to poke around and see). The source is maintained and coordinated at http://www.mozilla.org

I don't have first-hand experience with Enhydra, but a colleague has built and entire B2B ecommerce site using it, and swears by it. http://www.ilumber.com. I'm sure if you sent an email to Clinton he'd be more than happy to recap his experience with Enhydra, which I'm sure has been very positive. As a side note, I think it's amazing that a company has built such an extensive application server and released it as open source.

Great!

You beat me to it... :)

I tried that. However thank you for your response. The problem turned out to be the resource file. For some reason it increased in size to 25M! I restored my backup resource, recompiled, and the EXE file was now 1M. Recompiling my project resulted in a total exe size back to the original 4M.

Well, I've used InstallShield 5.x, and they are buggy in subtle ways if your install is complex (with many components and dependencies). The installs I've done have nasty code in places that are workarounds for IS bugs. Also, IS was totally unhelpful as far as support. We were doing an IS install from scratch during the development of IS 5.0, and they flat-out refused to acknowledge bugs in their product, even when we sent them our install so they could reproduce the bugs. I've also used Wise for Windows Installer. The IDE is nice and usable, but it's got bugs too. Again, it's workable but be prepared for IDE crashes. The Wise docs are also useless, they're just a rehash of the dialogs (as in, "this edit control does blah", "this checkbox does blah", without telling you why you should be using those controls). There is also InstallShield for Windows Installer. I've never used it, but see my earlier comments about IS. Good installers? Gksetup. :) Free for non-commercial use. For commercial use, you just have to send the author one copy of your product. I just checked that site, and there's now a professional edition. That wasn't there the last time I visited, so I don't know anything about its features.