I have downloaded the beta 2 of MS visual Studio 2010. I'm not very familiar with database projects. I've walked thru the MSVS2008 example for deploying a database to a server. This method entails building directly to a server you have access too. I'd like to know if there is a user friendly way to script out and install a database using MSVS2010 for a server you know nothing about at the time; ie you are developing a solution that needs to be installed at a client's network?

I have a context menu running for a vb.net windows service controller I've created. Folks can turn the windows service on and off with the application. I change the caption for the local mene each time the user changes the service status. (Startup service/ shutdown service) This works great until somebody changes the service status independantly of my service controller. Then the captions don't match. I'd like to capture the "right click" event of my context menu, so to speak, to make certain I have my service's status displayed correctly. I don't know how to do this with a dynamically created context menu. I can add events associated with specific menuitem w/i my context menu without issue.

It appears I already have my my Runtime library to Multi-Threaded-Debug (/MTd) Here is the complete command line, cut and pasted from my projects properties: /Od /AI "D:\Source Code\Cardacc v5.0.xx Customs\OracleTest\OraclePingC++\Debug" /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WINDLL" /D "_MBCS" /FD /EHsc /MTd /GS /Yu"stdafx.h" /Fp"Debug/OraclePingC++.pch" /Fo"Debug/" /Fd"Debug/vc70.pdb" /W3 /nologo /c /Zi /clr /TP /FU "c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll" /FU "c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\System.dll" /FU "c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\System.Data.dll" When I try to build the dll in Release mode, I receive a ton of LNK2001 and 2019 errors.

I am having issues writing a C++ .dll. When using MSVC++ 2003 the following line; #include <iostream> gives me a few errors OraclePingC++ error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __malloc_dbg referenced in function "void * __cdecl operator new(unsigned int,struct std::_DebugHeapTag_t const &,char *,int)" (??2@YAPAXIABU_DebugHeapTag_t@std@@PADH@Z) and OraclePingC++ error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __free_dbg referenced in function "void __cdecl operator delete(void *,struct std::_DebugHeapTag_t const &,char *,int)" (??3@YAXPAXABU_DebugHeapTag_t@std@@PADH@Z) When I comment out the #include line, the errors go away. I've tried to play with the linker settings with my properties, but I'm not making progres..

I'm a greenhorn when it comes to Oracle and C++. If I want to execute a simple "Select [Field1] from [table1]" bit of SQL from C++, how would I do that for Oracle?