Hey guys, I just updated to the summer DirectX release and i also downloaded Visual Studio C++ Express Beta to use. Now my programs don't compile...and i had to do this the day before i'm meant to be 'showing off' my program to my tutor. [tears] I'm getting a : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory in several places throughout...and that is because well, windows.h is not included with VC express. So in the 'VC++ Directory' settings i added the include directory for Visual Studio 6, in the include files section and in the library files section i added the libs directory for VC6 too. Both at the end of the list. This got rid of the windows.h problem but i'm now getting other errors like error C3861: 'UlongToPtr': identifier not found and error C3861: 'ULongToHandle': identifier not found Thing is these errors are in .cpp files which i didn't even write so if anybody as any advice i'd be most helpful. Thanks! Now i just wish i could get it back to what is was before never mind improve it!

You can grab the latest Platform SDK here. That should contain all the headers/libs you need.

From the looks of it the latest platform sdk was released in feb 2003. surely i'd have them already?

Not unless you got it specifically. VC6 comes with a much older version.

cool. Well thank you...i'm gonna have to leave overnight to download...i hope it works tomorrow otherwise i am d.e.a.d.

*crosses fingers* [depressed]

Just to say : from an industry point of view, what you did is really a bad thing (I know, this will obviously not help you :). Our main product deliverables (the software which drives a pro minilab) are still compiled using VC6. The VC7 version is ready and has been in test for nearly one year now.

Changing the compiler is something risky. You do not know what are the new compiler bugs, if your old workarounds still work, and so on...

My best advice is to continue using your old compiler for at least one day - then you'll have time to change your dev env (hey ! do not use a beta version for production code :)

Emmanuel Deloget:
Yeah i figured that peopl shouldn't use beta version for product code, but then i'm not really making commercial software :).

And surely the fact that VC6 is now longer officially supported by microsoft means that perhaps it's time to move on from VC6? My VC6 doesn't even work with the new DirectX SDK, to get it to work i'm gonna have to do some workarounds.

RenderTarget:
YES!! I just got it to work! Had to do a few other things, change a few of VC Express config files...links to few places here and a few places there. But in the end I got it to work...Thanks again.

[Edited by - LifeOfTamir on August 16, 2004 11:41:55 PM]