You should read the books by "Networking Books" by Richard Stevens. It is considered the standard book for learning networking. It is based on UNIX/POSIX, but the principles covered will be same for windows also. ~ Vimal

Hi, Is there any good books, articles (links) regarding configuration management and designing directory tree structure for a large project, so that things like daily builds, back up's can be well managed ? ~ Vimal

William, The conversion from int to Number is legitimate in C++, and my VC++ 6.0 compiles it fine. But the print function wont compile, since you are printing a 'Number' and not an int.The compiler has no idea about printing the Number type.To do this you need to overload the insertion operator "<<". ~ Vimal

What happens is, the COW (Copy On Write) mechanism is used by the system to make a private copy of these variables. To be specific, the system makes a private copy of the memory section containing static and global variables in the process modifying these variables. refer chapter 19 (DLL basics) of Jeffrey Richter's Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows 4th ED for more info. ~ Vimal

Yes, the two processes share the same chunk of memory. ~ Vimal

Your problem is not clear from the posted message. You can use c functions from Visual C++(Visual C++ is a tool built on c++ and c++ is backward compatible with c ). If you have problems with using c functions from a library(link error most probably), that may be due to the name mangling brought about by the c++ compiler. You can ask the compiler to turn off name mangling for the library functions by doing the following : extern "C" { #include "yourheader.h" } This asks the compiler not to mangle the names in the header file. HTH ~ Vimal

Thanks again. True I didn't set the version macros.I compiled the code after including the _WIN32_WINNT macro and MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION works fine. :-D ~ Vimal

Thanks. :) Though the MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION flag is specified in the MSDN, the complier gives an "undeclared identifier" error on my windows 2000 machine :~ . But MB_DEFAULT_DESKTOP_ONLY does the trick. ~ Vimal

Hi all, How to show a message box from a windows service ? Any tips, pointers, links ? Thanks in advance ~ Vimal

Hi, I am looking for books that will help me learn about windows networking API's. Say I want to know the ways by which I can transfer a file from one computer to another under windows 2k. Obviously FTP is the answer, but are there any other ways ? I am looking forward to your suggestions. ~ Vimal

Hmm.. Cesium Metal Oxide SemiConductor ~ Vimal

I read somewhere that in Australia if you find a snake in your house you are not supposed to harm it.You are to inform authorities and they will come and take it away. This is quite different from what we do here in india.Here if someone finds a snake,it will be beaten to a pulp.I think the fear of snakes leads them to do this.

Good points.I like to add a few more Dialogs should support keyboard shortcuts. 1.This means that we can move within a group by using arrow keys. 2.We should be able to select various controls using ALT+key combinations.For this we have to underscore the 'key' letter of the text associated with the control.

I like italy too.I started watching international football when Roberto Baggio was Italy's main star (Italia 90).I still remember the spectacular solo goal he scored against belgium(i think) in that world cup.Ever since then it's been italy for me. Moreover italians are more disciplined and well behaved. I hope they don't do things like what Rivaldo did in this world cup and Simeone did in the previous world cup. :mad:

Yes I do. Nish, I work at Nest, a CMM level 5 company in trivandrum. :)

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Try these http://hoganbooks.com/freebook/weball.html http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Etext.html http://www.ulib.org

1.If we don't define a copy constructor the compiler will generate one for us and any pointer members will "bitwise" (shallow) copied. 2.A default constructor will do nothing.Nothing is copied.

We get cartoon network in india.I like Dexter's laboratory, Jetsons, Tintin etc.:) Vimal

How can we be sure that the statue is of general thade?. Most of the apes in the movie looks similar except for their costumes and ornaments. Vimal