Monthly Archives: April 2010

Visual C++ 2010 fails to embed manifest on FAT32

Today I tried to figure out why one of my Visual Studio Projects failed to embed a Manifest. I had Generate Manifest and Embed Manifest enabled under Linker / Manifest tool, but manifest was not embedded. Long story short, after … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC

The new Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC. Transition from old good HTML help to new Web Browser Based Approach thing is painful, but the inability to search using index made this thing unusable. Luckily, … Continue reading

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Setup Project shows ‘WARNING: Could not find prerequisite’ under Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Installer (MSI) warning: WARNING: Could not find prerequisite ‘.NET Framework 2.0 (x86)’ in path ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\’ or WARNING: Could not find prerequisite ‘.NET Framework 2.0 (x86)’ in path ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\’ The result is that automatic … Continue reading

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‘auto’ in C++ is the same as ‘var’ in C#

auto in C++ is the same as var in C#. Auto keyword is defined in upcoming C++ standard C++0x The news is, that latest Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 have support for this keyword. auto keyword has a new meaning … Continue reading

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It seems that _SECURE_SCL_THROWS is deprecated in Visual Studio C++ 2010

It seems that _SECURE_SCL_THROWS is deprecated in Visual Studio C++ 2010. Because include file ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\yvals.h’ has the following code block: #if _SECURE_SCL_THROWS #ifndef _SILENCE_DEPRECATION_OF_SECURE_SCL_THROWS … #undef _SECURE_SCL_THROWS #pragma _CRT_WARNING( _DEPRECATE_SECURE_SCL_THROWS ) … It gets undefined, and if … Continue reading

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