Steve,
When you say, "rebuilding, "do you mean that John is he sensually starting over
from scratch? Please indulge those of us who are not code heads.
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On May 21, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Steve Matzura <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just got off the phone with the man himself. Two major things to
report:
One, Visual Studio Express cannot be used to develop this program
because it lacks support for certain components required in order to
build a dynamic link library of the type we need, so he went out and
got himself a full-blown Visual Studio Ultimate. Luckily he doesn't
actually have to pay for it for ninety days! I got it, too, on his
recommendation.
Two, most of the original source code, written in C, had to be
scrapped because the conversion to C++ (that C plus plus for those of
you without punctuation turned on) was problematic and full of dynamic
code rewrites thanks to Visual Studio Express. There were also
problems with pre-compiled headers using old Microsoft Foundation
Class files which are non-redistributable and which won't work in
Windows 7 and beyond anyway, another reason why VS Ultimate is
required. For those interested in learning what MFC's and ATL's are,
consult https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh967573.aspx for all
the gory glories, as they say. It's more Microsoft convolution for
sure, but if you want to play in their sandbox, you can't even bring
your own sand! LOL.
John is pretty confident that now he's decided to rework the thing
from the ground up without trying to bend the old wheel to the new
frame that he'll have something by the weekend, and it'll be a lot
easier to make happen than it was by doing it the old way, by
rebuilding rather than converting.
