Could someone check this pls?

[Shockwave]

Thanks, if you have visualc installed and the platform sdk, could you check the file;

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCProjectDefaults\corewin_express.vsprops

and see if yours looks the same as this..

I think mine is buggered.

If you have a working version, could you post it so I can try and get mine working?
Thanks!

Here's mine;

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VisualStudioPropertySheet
ProjectType="Visual C++"
Version="8.00"
Name="Core Windows Libraries">
<Tool
Name="VCLinkerTool"
AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib"

</VisualStudioPropertySheet>


[benny!]

Here is mine :

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VisualStudioPropertySheet
ProjectType="Visual C++"
Version="8.00"
Name="Core Windows Libraries">
<Tool
Name="VCLinkerTool"
AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib"
 />
</VisualStudioPropertySheet>
Seems they are identically...

[Shockwave]

Yours is different, I can load projects again now, cheers Benny!

The installation still will not work though! hehehe.

[Shockwave]

Nothing works here.

I give up! For now anyway.

[Shockwave]

I am going to try and re-install both vc++ and platform sdk.

This has been so fiddly and time consuming that it makes me not want to bother with it. As Benny said in another post, why do Microsoft have to make everything so difficult to set up?
Most shareware and freeware stuff installs much more easily than this shit.

For me, anyway, I am on the verge of walking away from this a very, very, very dissapointed men.
I must be either too stupid to follow an installation guide or just very unlucky. I dunno. All I know is that I have hours of downloads now and yet another wasted day.

What a load of shit this installation really is.

I hate it. It's probably the most frustrating experience I have ever had with a computer, a true moment where one feels like throwing the laptop at the wall.

[benny!]

I guess every programmer has those moments like you have right now. Installing and configuring
IDEs and the system is the stressy part of our lives as a programmer I guess.

Nevertheless, I hope you got it working in the second try. Keep your head up and try not to throw
your laptop out of the window 

[Shockwave]

Hehe,well if I am not online, you'll know that this notebook has been thrown at the wall. Thanks for the encouraging words

[Shockwave]

Well, it is re-installed, it even built the application on the using psdk page and ran that fine, however I still can't seem to compile my own things. I guess I should leave it alone and come back to it another time when I'm more relaxed.

[ferris]

JUST USE DEV-C++!!!

More people here use it and can help you.

I have both, I use VC++ for resource scripts and dev for code.

[Shockwave]

I have DEVC, tbh, I was going to use that but several people who I have spoken to told me to use M$VC.. The good news is that it appears to be working now.. If I am going to get a job doing this I might as well use the industry standard software.. DEVC is a much smaller download, I like the ide better in visual c. I dunno! I'm just glad I can compile windows apps now.

I don't have a clue where I went wrong the first time I tried to install it.

[Jim]

Please don't go back to devc++ and please stick with VC.  You made a mistake when you edited the corewin XML file (you missed out or deleted the /> at the end of the tag).  The rest of it is just a small hurdle, it'll be fixed in no time

Jim

[Shockwave]

I will be sticking with this Jim, in fact I have already got a few simple things working so I am quite chuffed.
I really want to learn this so I can get a proper job. I shouldn't be a van driver ffs.

After using this IDE and the visual C environment, there's no way I could go back to Devc, sure it's easier to set up and a smaller download but to me it seems like a poor second choice. Actually if I had to use Devc I probably wouldn't bother with the language tbh.

I can see the value of using something that the whole industry uses, it will make it easier for me to get work, and although the installation went wrong and I had to re-install, your help files did help.

[Emil_halim]

Actually , i have both of them installed in my system, the bad thing about MSVC++ 2005 is the runtime file that i have to distrebute with each exe or dll file i made.

also i am using codeblock IDE for both of them.

[Jim]

Go in to the project preferences
Project->Properties->Configuration Properties->C/C++->Code Generation->Runtime Library
and change it from Multi-threaded DLL to Multi-Threaded.
That will make it use a static runtime library instead of the DLL.

Jim

[Emil_halim]

thanks  Jim ,

there is an other problem , the .manifest file of Dll and exe file, 3 months ago i made an DLL and distrebuted it with the manifest , but some users can not run it , so i have went to Dev-C++.

is there any selution to avoid this bad  .manifest  file?

[Jim]

They're a bit of a mystery to me still - the best plan I can see is if you delete all the manifests and then change to static libraries and rebuild the problem goes away.  The manifests are there to force/state which version of the VC runtimes are required to run.

JimS

[Emil_halim]

even if you delete all the manifests ,and rebuild them with static library , when you ues that library with your onw project , you still has the same problem ,the exe of project needs manifest file.

so , i am using Dev-C++ now till i find a selution.

[Jim]

You have to make sure that the dll, any static libraries and your exe ALL have 'Multi-Threaded'.  If you try mixing them it gets very complicated.  You have to remember that each module effectively has its own runtime.

Jim

[Emil_halim]

yes , of course all of them  'Multi-Threaded'.

anyway , thanks for your explanaition.