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I managed to figure out how to read data in from a text file in my program directory. How can I access a text file that is online? try{ StreamReader^theReader = gcnew StreamReader("http://www.whatever.com/file.txt"); //not the actual address, of course }...

Here is what happened. I made two ComboBoxes with the Microsoft Visual C++ form maker. I set them as uneditable. I wanted to change the selected index to the first text, instead of a blank space so I manually added code into the form.h file to set the selected index to what I wanted. When I...

Thanks for that link. I've searched that page for some of my other questions/problems but never thought to lookup how to parse under convert. In case anyone is interested, the following code is what worked for me: try{ c = Convert::ToInt32(b); } catch(OverflowException^g){...

I'm using Visual C++ '05 on Windows XP. Here is the code: private: System::Void submitButton_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { String^a = serialField->Text; //from textfield int c = 0; String^b = a->Substring(1,8); //parse String b into int c...how...

In my program, I can't use stringstream or the >>/<< without getting errors. Do I have to be working in main to use these? Right now, I'm working on a form application. Here's what should happen: When a button is clicked, I read in text from a field, take a substring of it, and then parse...

Sadly, I've been searching a couple hours for a one line way to parse strings into integers. It is such a ridiculously simple task that I'm almost hesitant to post this. Please keep the terminology at a low level as I am extremely new to this language. Thanks guys! -David

Changing the selectedIndex to 0 worked...one problem, though. When I debug the program and run it, sometimes the line changing the selectedIndex to 0 gets deleted! Is this a bug in Visual C++ or an error on my part?

I'm rather new to C++ but not to programming (up until this morning, I didn't know how to work Visual C++ '05). In an application I'm working on, I need a comboBox that is un-editable. I figured out that I do that by changing the dropDownStyle to dropDownList. It works fine except one thing...