Jialiang Ge has just finished a summary of solutions to invoke .NET assembly from native C++ code . Solution 1. Use a C++/CLI wrapper Solution 2. Host CLR Solution 3. Convert .NET assembly to a COM server, and call it from C++ through .NET-COM interop...

Jialiang Ge has just finished a summary of solutions to invoke native C++ DLL from .NET code . Solution 1. (Explicit) P/Invoke Solution 2. Dynamic P/Invoke Solution 3. Implicit P/Invoke (Use a C++/CLI wrapper) Solution 4. Convert C++ DLL to a COM server...

CodeFx lands on MSDN China homepage to benefit Chinese developers. As the MSDN headline reads, “CodeFx makes learning and using Microsoft technologies easy and productive”. You can download the latest release of CodeFx on http://cfx.codeplex.com/Release...

Dear Friends. Have you ever needed a quick understanding of a technique, e.g. ActiveX or VSX, but been daunted by the few or too many samples and documents that are available on the Internet? Have you ever downloaded or created a good sample, e.g. a named...

This is a frequently asked question. Suppose that we have a class Person which has a property of type Address(another class). The class Address has its own properties. Now we create a collection of Person objects, e.g. List<Person> and would like...

As you all know, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0(VSS 6.0) was first shipped in 1998. Although there are 4 versions from 6.0a to 6.0d, it had been about 7 year before the next version VSS 2005(VSS 8.0) was released. You may be curious on how many things...

1. What is the unmanaged COM Add-ins loading process? Here is a COM Add-in registry example. [ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Office\ Excel \AddIns\ UnmanagedAddin.Connect ] "FriendlyName"="UnmanagedAddin" "Description"="Composed in...

One question I’ve seen asked a few times by people in the NG is “how do I manage ASP.NET Membership, Role Management database in non-ASP.NET application/context”. This blog entry walks you though a few simple steps on how to-do this. Quick Review...

In the new release of Sharepoint Server (MOSS 2007), a very interesting control is provided, "DelegateControl", under Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl. With this control we can easily reuse our ASP.NET control on SPS pages. Now, an ASP .NET...

When you creating a table, you may encounter the following information: ' Table <table name> has been created but its maximum row size(11038) exceeds the maximum number of bytes per row (8060). INSERT or UPDATE Of a row in this table will fail if...

A common tough scenario is the application crash/hang in production environment. Production environment is different from development environment that it normally does not have any powerful tools to obtain information regarding application failure. In...

SQL Server 2005 Books Online and MSDN have provided many references on the new features of SSIS; however few references demonstrate how to use parameters in Execute SQL Task. I would like to share my experiences here to enlighten those interested and...

1. How to get my question answered quick? Create a new message, don't post a question of your own in response to another question. Make the "Subject line" a short, relevant synopsis of your problem. Before going into detail, clearly summarize...

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