>>>God I love this business. For the first time I am doing what they said you could do in .NET but I've never done or seen done before - two languages in the same solution.
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>>>And one of them is C++. Really a new experience. I am studying VC++ as fast as I can and trying to catch on to the whole Linking/compiling universe it inhabits and just where everything goes if using the VS2010 IDE (using VS2012 is not an option for this particular project as it just complicates the C++ side)
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>>>Using Boost 1.54 and a whole lot of other stuff I'd never heard of as of July 4.
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>>>I am going to be using QuickFAST (an opensource C++ project with a dotnet wrapper that decodes and deserializes feeds from financial markets that use the FAST/FIX protocol) and it isan adventure.
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>>>Since I'm on the UT a lot I thought I check to see if we had any VC++ gurus in the house and if posting questions here was going to be useful. ( I also hang out on Stackoverflow, of course and QuickFAST has a very nice Google group)
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>>>Now I think I should see if there is VC++ section of UT that I've just alwasy had turned off...
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>>>(UPDATE - found the forum but it looks like no one is home)
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>>I gather Rick Hodgin is fluent in C/C++, dunno about VC++.
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>Let's all give Rick a break. I have been among the bitchers and moaners but have noticed him answering tech questions, to his credit.

?? I think you're trying to read something into my post, that isn't there.

In some of his technical posts Rick has described working with C/C++, I got the impression he's fairly experienced.