How can I display international strings? Is there a function like setlocale which I have to invoke for the various subsystems (GDI, USER etc, etc)

1. How do I turn off the confirmation warnings when executing action queries and deleting records from VBA code in MS Access 2000? 2. How do I call a VBA routine at startup of the MDB?

Does the process calling these functions require any special access rights? My application can only execute with normal user privileges.

On WinNT/2K/XP, how do determine what privilege level a process is executing in (eg whether the process has LocalSystem privileges)? Is there any API call to use?

Does a PHP4 syntax highlighting plugin exist for Visual Studio 6?

I have the following tables: CREATE PLAYER ( PLAYERNO INT UNIQUE NOT NULL, NAME CHAR(20), ... PRIMARY KEY(PLAYERNO) ) CREATE TABLE GAME ( GAMENO INT UNIQUE NOT NULL, PLAYER1 INT, PLAYER2 INT, HOURS INT, ... PRIMARY KEY(GAMENO), FOREIGN KEY(PLAYER1) REFERENCES PLAYER(PLAYERNO), FOREIGN KEY(PLAYER2) REFERENCES PLAYER(PLAYERNO) ) How do I retrieve, for every player, the total number of hours he played as Player1 and the total number of hours played as Player2? The resulting table should be something like: PLAYERNO HRS-PLAYED-AS-P1 HRS-PLAYED-AS-P2

How does one write to a CD-RW drive in Win32? How do professional software like Adaptec CD Creator do this? Is there a standard API call or is it necessary to use device specific CreateFile/WriteFile/DeviceIOControl commands?

It is already disabled. But the _Restore/Temp directory still keeps growing. I found out that if I set a new restore point, then the folder gets cleared, but is there a way to completely disable system restore?

On a WinMe box, how can I disable system restore so that is stops adding *.cpy files into the _Restore directory?

When calling GetOpenFileName w/ multi-select enabled, is there a way to determine the buffer space required by the lpstrFile pointer ?

What switches should I specify to link.exe to generate a raw binary? Also, can dumpbin disassemble a raw binary?

Where can I find information on making a computer system communicate w/ a cellphone through SMS?

Umm...how on Win9X? EnumProcess seems to work only on NT.

How can I access a CD at the track level in Win32? I'm trying to access Redbook Audio information.

How can I implement word wrapping in regular edit controls w/o resorting to subclassing as much as possible.

you seem to have gone off a different tangent. the original pt is not about c++ but rather the relevance of the win32 api in the future.

Is it advisable to start coding the '.net' way or remain using the Win32 api / mfc? Will .net objects replace win32 as the native api?

Is there a way to enable hicolor when using LoadToolBar? I dont want to create the tool bar from code.

How can I make use of hicolor bitmaps in my toolbars?

How can I make use of CRebar and CToolBar in a dialog-based window? (I dont want to use CRebarCtrl/CToolBarCtrl) ps: does MS intend to support MFC any further or is it going the way of the dodo?