From Visual Studio 2003 to 2005 GKR........

[MrSeanKon]

Two days ago I installed the express edition of Visual C++ 2005.
This is a part of Visual Studio 2005.
I tried to open RAM Stretcher project.
The new programming platform informed me that the old version files (Visual Studio 2003) must be converted to new one.
But GKR the program could not run and the project file modified (GKR I don't know why).....
Thus I must rewrite the RAM Stretcher again GKR it is boring....
For this reason I uninstalled it.
Moreover it does not support WinAPI (the compilation failed dramatically).

GKR here is a simple code (Visual C++ 2003) but shows a GKR message instead of the common "Hello world" in many C, C++ books.

#pragma once

namespace GKR
{
	using namespace System;
	using namespace System::ComponentModel;
	using namespace System::Collections;
	using namespace System::Windows::Forms;
	using namespace System::Data;
	using namespace System::Drawing;

	public __gc class Form1 : public System::Windows::Forms::Form
	{	
		public: Form1(void)
		{
			Application::EnableVisualStyles();
			InitializeComponent();
		}
		protected:
		void Dispose(Boolean disposing)
		{
			if (disposing && components)
			{
				components->Dispose();
			}
			__super::Dispose(disposing);
		}
		private: System::Windows::Forms::Button *  button1;
		private: System::ComponentModel::Container * components;

		void InitializeComponent(void)
		{
			this->button1 = new System::Windows::Forms::Button();
			this->SuspendLayout();
			// 
			// button1
			// 
			this->button1->FlatStyle = System::Windows::Forms::FlatStyle::System;
			this->button1->Location = System::Drawing::Point(104, 120);
			this->button1->Name = S"button1";
			this->button1->TabIndex = 0;
			this->button1->Text = S"button1";
			this->button1->Click += new System::EventHandler(this, button1_Click);
			// 
			// Form1
			// 
			this->AutoScaleBaseSize = System::Drawing::Size(5, 13);
			this->ClientSize = System::Drawing::Size(292, 266);
			this->Controls->Add(this->button1);
			this->FormBorderStyle = System::Windows::Forms::FormBorderStyle::FixedDialog;
			this->MaximizeBox = false;
			this->MinimizeBox = false;
			this->Name = S"Form1";
			this->Text = S"Form1";
			this->ResumeLayout(false);

		}	

		
		private: System::Void button1_Click(System::Object *  sender, System::EventArgs *  e)
		{
			MessageBox::Show("Visual Studio 2005 made me GKR.......","My first impression of");
		}
	};
}

The similar program under Visual Studio 2005 differs on some points (definitions of functions, no *) etc...
I am wondering why........
GKR.......................
GKR.......................

[Gizmo]

I haven't played with VC 2005 Express, so I'm not familiar with the differences between it and the full edition.

I had forgotten about the whole "We changed the version #, so all of the project files have to change format too" thing. This is really, REALLY frustrating, too, because all of the examples in the MSDN use the new file format, meaning that if you aren't using the latest edition of the compiler, you can't even open the examples!

Even MORE infuriating than that, though was the fact that Microsoft went through the online MSDN and changed all of the examples to use the VS 2005 format even before VS 2005 was RELEASED!

I ran into this shortly before VS 2005 came out. I fired off a nastygram to Microsoft about this and received a very nice response that basically boiled down to "We're very sorry you feel you were inconvenienced. Would you like a cookie?".

[MrSeanKon]

GKR gizmo (not for you) but for M$....
I am wondering if the moving from Visual Studio 2003 to 2005 is something terrific.
OK only two programs are written in C++ but if the other C# forms required programming again then I will be too

[Gizmo]

The conversion applies only to the project files, not the source files. That was part of what had me so aggravated with MS; they changed the project file format on their examples so that you could only open the projects with VS 2005, despite the fact that many of the examples were written back in the days of VS 5! (yes, Visual Studio 5 from like 1994 or something, NOT Visual Studio 2005) and didn't include anything that actually was specific to VS 2005.

As for VS 2003 and VS 2005 differences, MS cleaned up a lot of bugs in the VS IDE with 2005 so that a lot of things either work, or work better than they used to with VS 2003.

For myself, I am seriously considering moving to some derivative of the GNU compiler for any of the stuff that I do that is not directly related to my company work. I'm getting more fed up with the MS merry-go-round every day.

[MrSeanKon]

OK let me know what is going on......
As we know you have some of OcBible v1.49 C# parts.
Visual Studio 2005 compile them without problems?

[Gizmo]

With one issue which I have already mentioned to you before, yes.

[MrSeanKon]

The Wizard interface does not show Windows Visual styles.
Focus to the arrows of the comboboxes:

http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/attac...1&d=1174462196

This is a bug of *****ing Visual Studio 2003 cos 2005 appears:

http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/attac...1&d=1174462196

GKR again I saw an exception error using gradient colors (2005):

http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/attac...1&d=1174462196

gizmo we must rewrite from beggining the source code of System Reporter (you know why remember our u2us).
Moreover API.dll cos this is a C++ part of 2005:

private: System::Void button1_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) 
{
	MessageBox::Show("Should I stop using M$ products?","GKR",MessageBoxButtons::OK,MessageBoxIcon::Question);
}

GKR totally different the procedure definition (2003).

private: System::Void btn_Hide_Click(System::Object * sender, System::EventArgs * e)
{
	notifyIcon1->Visible=true;
	this->Hide();
}

I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WANT to bother us GKR should we go to Linux forever????????????
Moreover I must rewritte RAM Stretcher's code.
Hopefully most of Ocbible forms are in C# I don't want to imagine myself if the whole code was written in C++.

Post your comments gizmo.
First OcBible versions were written in Borland C++.
It was very boring the conversion Borland C++ ----> Micro$oft C#.
What should I do????
New Windows programming platform?????
Such as Delphi?????
I do not remember anything about Pascal....
Do you suggest other one Windows programming platform???
Or Linux enviroment??????????
In this case OcBible v1.52 will be available after 1-3 years......
Moreover we don't have Linux programming knowledge, imagine you and me reading books like students........
I am very very very very (100000000000000000000 times)