Hi,

I downloaded the APIs today, looking at the C++ samples. They were last built with VC 2005 with MBCS. I'm using VS 2015 and MBCS is deprecated, only Unicode is supported.

I've just converted two, it's primarily add L infront of all strings, an occasional sprintf to swprintf, or strcpy to tcscpy. A bit of a manual process.

Does DTN have unicode samples? Or has anyone converted them and want to share?

m.

Hello, I do not have a copy of 2015 yet, but I will see what I can find out about it tomorrow. The problem with compiling in newer versions is that VS 2015 sln files won't open in any other VS version. Hence why we have stayed with a 2005 compile. But, we'll see what options might exist and I will get back with you.

Tim

Good morning,

I was looking into this and while the MBCS are not natively supported in VS 2015, I did find this add-in that should allow them to continue to function. I am not sure if the community edition will allow me to install this or not, but I am installing that to try and use this addin myself now. If you get a chance to try it let me know, and if it works for me, I will do the same. Even if it does work, this is something we will need to be aware of as we go forward so thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Tim

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=47262

Well, since MFC is not included in Express, I was unable to test the add-in. I figured that would be the case, but I wanted to at least try it. Let me know if it works out for you.

Tim

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the quick response and investigation. Great find on that plugin. I'll try it out later today and report back.

I'll also zip up the samples I have converted to Unicode and send them your way for future customers.

Btw, VS 2015 is free and does come with MFC - I think you have to go through the custom installation to get it.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/free-developer-offers-vs.aspx

m.