When migrating an ATL project from vc6 to vc8, you will get a problem about CComModule. Problem: In vc6, there is such a declaration in stdafx.h as: extern CComModule _Module; and in the main module: CComModule _Module; But when you complie it in vc8, the following errors apears: c:\temp\myatl\stdafx.h(24) : error C2146: syntax error : [...]

From MSDN: The profiler is an analysis tool that you can use to examine the run-time behavior of your programs. By using profiler information, you can determine which sections of your code are working efficiently. The profiler can produce information showing areas of code that are not being executed or that are taking a long [...]

Code Completion is a very useful feature of programiing, but it often  strikes in VC++ 6.0. If you meet such matter, try the following step: 1. delete *.ncb, *.opt, *.plg and *.clw files from your project directory 2. rebuild your project. And you often need CTRL+W to generate the class wizard infmation again. But the above works [...]

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Here is the short introduction of the great article of  Alan De Smet . Please goto the author’s website for the fulltext and there are some upgrade of the article. The author introduced the shortcomings of SourceSafe and hoped  to dissuade us from using SourceSafe, and have spared us the bad experiences he had.

Here are some tips of Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0. Display the LastError’s value When we want to get the LastError message, we often using the following code. LPVOID lpMsgBuf; FormatMessage( FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS, NULL, GetLastError(), MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language (LPTSTR) &lpMsgBuf, 0, NULL ); // Process any inserts in lpMsgBuf. // … [...]