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System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt..
If you have VS2005 C++ Unit Tests, written in managed C++ as they should be, and you are calling native code from them, and you see that error when running your unit tests - I have found it [...]

If you are referncing another lib in a project and you goto build and get
fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ‘C:\MyProject\Debug.obj’
Do a double check in the project you are referencing configuration. If you have a space in the name (Say “Debug Test”) you might see this error and scratch your head. If the project you [...]

Vs2005->New->Project
Win32->Win32 Project
On the Wizard, Application Settings, choose DLL radio box, hit finish.
This is all great, except when you build it, you just end up with a dll. How do you use the dll in another project?
Add a Module-Definition File (.def) - call it Export.def
next time you build, there will be a “.lib” file avail so [...]

If you ever used Visual Studio/C++ 6 (98), you would notice that the MFC Class Wizard allows you to set up messages as you create a class. Well, I’m not sure about VS2003, but VS2005, when you use the MFC Class Wizard, there are no options for setting up messages and events. Where did the [...]

If you ever need to run static code analysis on C/C++ files, you can use Vs2005, but if you are in Vs2003, here is what you can do:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>cl /analyze “C:\MyCodeFile.c” > c:\MyCodeFileAnalysis.txt
Found this on MSDN

I have been dabbling with BHO’s for some time, way back with VB6, then tried in .NET, and with C++ as well. There are so many cool things you can do with them. Anyways, most of the documentation out there is sparse and old. I told myself the next time I have to make one, [...]

SHGetFolderPath doesn’s seem to work on Windows 98. If you use it to try  to find like the “My Pictures” directory,  it will error out.  I have read that some versions of Win98 do work, depends on the version of shell32.dll (5 and greater). A workaround that you can use , which probably isn’t 100%  [...]

strcpy - Copies the content pointed by src to dest stopping after the terminating null-character is copied.
dest should have enough memory space allocated to contain src string.
strncpy - Copies the first num characters of src to dest.
No null-character is implicitly appended to dest after copying process. So dest may not be null-terminated if no null-caracters [...]

The last few days, I have been looking into a solution to kill a process in c/c++ - but not just any process, a ScreenSaver running while the computer is locked. Most examples on MSDN and such terminiate processes by sending close messages to them, and 99% of the time that works. It even works [...]

ok. Dang it I don’t like C++ and I was getting this error trying to compile a solution. Since searching in google doesnt give anything (do c++ developers use the internet yet?) I am posting this here for the next unlucky soul. What it means is that file is missing from an executable path or [...]