ever heard of the o2 joggler? Kind of what you are asking for

Agreed. I just prepare for the latest acronyms. "SLA" - Service Level Agreement or Site License Agreement. :laugh:

Just grin, tell them "PFM", and walk into the sunset. Works for me anyway. :) -NP Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.

Looks like I have to implement CCW (COM Collable wrapper) for the mixed class. Any examples or links in this regard wil be great.

Sorry, you're mistaken. Your example happens to produce the result you want, but it is not correct. Here is the background: The way floats/doubles are stored in binary makes it impossible to exactly represent most values, especially the ones that seem like round numbers to humans thinking using base ten. So 4, 2, 1, 0.5, 3.5, 3.75 and many others are representable exactly (basically since they all equal an integer divided by some power of 2); but 3.6 and 3.8 and an infinite number of other values are not. Now whatever float/double function you call, if it returns a float/double will suffer from the same phenomenon. So the only way to really get "3.6" or "3.8" is by using a function that not only rounds but returns a string. I trust there are some formatting methods that do just that in every programming language; In .NET languages ToString() should be one of them, given an appropriate format specifier. If you want to know much more about this topic, here it is: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg\_goldberg.html BTW: to circumvent the floating-point rounding problem, especially for monetary numbers, they introduced the "decimal" data type (which basically stores decimal digits). :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Sorry for any delays in replying, I currently don't always get e-mail notifications.

Ah, gotcha. I don't think that will work, because the string in the resources isn't constant. Instead of doing a switch, you should just use if/else, using string.Equals(first, second, comparisonOptionsAndCulture) Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Back From Vacation The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango

ArtiGujare wrote: Confusion-A) The designer of MyClass1 opens fine even if 1) or 2) is used. That's good. ArtiGujare wrote: Confusion-B) assuming I use method 2) OK, I am not sure but this is what I expect is happening: - the line private Class2 _obj=null; does not do much: it reserves a 4 (or 8) byte reference which is defaulted to zero; it does not need to know what Class2 actually is, so the compiler will insist on knowing Class2, but at run-time Class2 is not needed, since there is no code corresponding to this line. - the line _obj=null; in the constructor is assigning to a variable of type Class2; at run-time this is the first time Class2 is referenced, so the JIT will try to load and compile it (although the statement does not require any knowledge of Class2, by definition this is when Class2 needs to get initialized). Now at design time (which also runs the constructor), it will fail to find the dll containing Class2 since it searches relative to the location of Visual itself, not your project. This I guess is the issue you must solve, but no I do not know how. Hope this helps. :) Luc Pattyn [My Articles] [Forum Guidelines]

I just posted a reply to the other thread in this message, which I guess applies to this too. http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/HallOfShame.asp?msg=2053494#xx2053494xx[^] Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

This is part of the Visual Studio Team System suite of application. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/default.aspx[^] and not a part of Visual Studio Professional. There are tools, such as NUnit http://www.nunit.org/[^] that can be used however with your version. only two letters away from being an asset

Have you looked at GhostDoc. http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/[^] It will do some of what you want if I understand you correctly. For a file header, you could try writing a code snippet. Kevin

Apologies. This Mixed Mode coding makes me confused sometimes. ::confused:

Hi Led, I did have a look at this site. For each class to be used from the dll a skeleton(StructLayout) of that class has to be defined in the project using that dll. However, the dll I am talking about is huge and consists of too many classes. I have approximately 16 exported classes which I would be using. 1) Is there a better way to do this? These classes again have member variable as objects of other classes not exposed from the dll. 2) Could you tell me how to write the StructLayout for a class having private members as objects of other classes. Regards, Arti Gujare

ArtiGujare wrote: I tried adding the VC6dll in my VS2005App using "Add Reference". "Add Reference" is for adding .NET assemblies in a "Managed" Project. You are in the C++ forum indicating that your project is a "Native" project. Therefore you do not add a reference to the DLL. You link to it using a .Lib file just as before. Using a DLL from a C++ project is pretty basic stuff, why are you having problems with this? Perhaps if you give us more information about your level of experience we might provide more targeted information. led mike

Hi, i can suggest a simple solution for the problem. you can check the value returned from your dll and open the file using .net classes. ^-^ @|@ - redCat

Hi Arti, do you perhaps use the .NET Framework in your OCX? Because "System.Drawing" sounds like the corresponding namespace of the .NET Framework. Perhaps your callstack looks nicer if you use the Microsoft Symbol Server to get the corresponding debug symbols. Then for example "System.Drawing.pdb" will be automatically downloaded from M$. Checkout the following articles on how to configure Visual Studio to connect to the M$ Symbol Server: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/symbols.asp[^] http://www.codeproject.com/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.asp[^] cheers, mykel If they give you lined paper, write the other way!

Thank you Wes Aday. I will post it there too.