Probably be quite difficult to port the approach used in Boost - one of the first comments I saw in the bimap headers was: // Bimap Core, use mpl magic to find the desired bimap type Once you're using the words 'mpl' (== C++ template metaprogramming library) and 'magic' together, there's little to no hope of translating the code directly to another language. I suspect some form of code generator would be the best bet (I seem to remember a container generator being written by someone before C# got generics - that would be similar). Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Use the typedef . At least typedefs are part of the language and can be constrained by the namespacing mechanisms the language has (namespace, class, struct etc). #defines, on the other hand, have the effect of performing a global search and replace over your code, which can causes horrors to occur. The C++ FAQs say it[^] quite well. Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

I have an article on this here. Polymorphism in C[^] «_Superman_»

Hello Guys, Thanks a lot for your response. As far as the class goes it's not a design issue. I just wanted to find out how to write a proper an assignment operator of for a class with contant member. So it was just out of curosity that I wrote a sample class. Regards :) :)

psychedelic_fur wrote: Do you think VS2008 SP1 compiler is the most complete one when it comes to templates specification implementation? It's not far off the top. psychedelic_fur wrote: And does it supports export keyword for templates? No - but then, which C++ compiler does :-) That's a trick question, 'cause here's the answers: Comeau C++[^] Intel C++ for Linux..but don't know about Windows. Possibly Borland C++

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You can make a dll and use of it on the c++ or vice versa.

I managed to make my application totally standalone in the sense that now it can be simply copied and executed on any target machine without worrying whether the proper side-by-side assemblies are installed on target machine or not. For those interested here is link which really helped me http://blog.kalmbach-software.de/2008/05/03/howto-deploy-vc2008-apps-without-installing-vcredist_x86exe Though the article is for VC2008 but it is applicable to VC2005 as well. However there is a small issue with the method mentioned. If your application is dependent on a 3rd party DLL which has embedded manifest file then the method will not work. In such case probably installing the redistributable will be a better idea. Thanks :) :)

psychedelic_fur wrote: Now when I use this header file and try accessing the variable as APP_CONTANTS:: then the auto complete feature of Visual Studio always shows only the first defined variable. What happens if you swap the order of MAX_BUFFER_SIZE and appStartupMsg? "Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

psychedelic_fur wrote: Thank you You're welcome. psychedelic_fur wrote: It could probably be that MFC is setting the working directory automatically. I don't think so. Anyway now it works, why bother? Best wishes. :) 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

psychedelic_fur wrote: Or is it the case that the since the method is not accessing the data member variable yes, you can also do the similar code. (*(SingleTon *)0).functionAccessNoDataMember(); (*(SingleTon *)0).functionAccessDataMember(); // crashes calling a member function is not dereferencing, member function is called as if a normal function with storing the object address to register which is called this pointer, whenever a data member is accessed the this pointer is dereferenced like *(this + data member offset) // causes access violation if this pointer is not valid address. calling member function is not crashing because code is same for all instance of object and function pointer is same no need to call like (this + memberfunction)();

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I have been facing that problem too. You should use the VC_redist.exe Setup for the VS2005 SP1 runtime. You find it on the MS-websites. Greetings from Germany

Map files does have information at times which can be useful. More over I receive a screen shot from customers or beta testers which has just offset information. Using map files and line number information is sometimes easier to locate the crash location as discussed in some of the articles on this site.

The C++ standard does not dictate whether char is signed or unsigned. The default for char in Visual C++ is signed (but this can be changed with a compiler option). wchar_t is a typedef for unsigned short in older compilers and so is always unsigned. This sounds like a value that is not used as a character, only as an 8-bit integer, and you should leave it as char rather than blindly converting to TCHAR. You should evaluate all uses of char carefully as it sounds like a codebase where a BYTE typedef was not used. DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991

Check out the SetConsoleCP and GetConsoleCP API functions. Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.