: : : Hi I am returning to programming after some time doing other things.
: : : I took on some Visual C++ 2003 applications that were working. I
: : : made some changes and everything was OK. Then somehow I lost
: : : references to additional MySQL libraries and KeyLok2 libraries. I
: : : added these back and got clean compile and link. But now I get
: : : "debug assertion failures" in files like afxwin1.ini, wingdix.cpp
: : : and wingdi.cpp. This did not happen before. Does anyone have any
: : : idea what I need to do to get debugging again?
: : :
: : Run your code in debugger and when you get an Assertion
: : Message Box - simply click "Debug" button. It should bring you to
: : the source code line where assertion fired. After this, select "Show
: : Call Stack" command and tracking back - you will see which line of
: : your code causes the assertion. Thinking logically, it is almost
: : always possible to quickly determine the real cause. Like window (or
: : other object) handle is not created yet or some pointer is
: : NULL.
:
: This code was working with no problems.
:
Are you compiling in VS 2005? If so, then this may be the changes in run-time library and other things (CString became worse, as an example). We had big issue moving from VS 2003 to VS 2005. Both in compilation errors and run-time.
If you compiling with same VS 2003 compiler - then OS probably changed. Did you get any service packs applied?
In any event, instead of guessing - simply fire the debugger.
