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Originally Posted by Dameon
Is a complete rewrite necessary? You could wrap problematic bits in a C++ library project. It really depends on the "why" and "how much" of this rewrite effort.
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Hmmmmm - you ask a good question...
The department I currently program for - has had many programmers over the past several years. Each has brought his/her own unique strengths to the job.
Programs written during the tenure of Mr. A tended to be Gnu c++(g++). Written and compiled on various platforms - Linux/UNIX/Windows.
Programs written during the tenure of Mr. C tended to be ASP/ASP.NET.
Programs written during the tenure of Ms. D tended to be Gnu C (gcc). Written and compiled on LINUX platforms with libraries for Windows linked in when needed.
I am wanting to get all of these legacy programs updated into the Visual Studio language that's appropriate to each task - and appropriate to my own coding ability. And, in so doing - the code will be more maintainable. (There are only two programmers on staff that can really deal with this old/legacy c++ code. Everyone else is a .NET programmer of some kind. If I get this code into a mainstream source VB.NET, VC#, VC++ - then it will be more readily modifiable.
(I currently have 3 different versions of Gnu c++ compilers - and they don't co-exist very well - so I have them loaded on three different machines. For one of the applications - I have to use machine A ... for another application, Machine B, and so on...)
The bottom line - this function - the one I'm trying to get to work - I wrote a VC# project and this same function won't work from there, either.
I did not try this in VC++, though - I suppose I could.