[GD-General] [GD General] Windows in .NET :(

[Joe C. <jo...@mu...>]

Hi all,

I just stupidly upgraded to Visual C++ .NET from VC6. And so of course 
my windows code doesn't
work with it for some lame reason.

This code worked
PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR pfd;
    WNDCLASS wc;
    // register window class
    wc.style = CS_OWNDC;
    wc.cbClsExtra = 0;
    wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
    wc.hInstance = ctx->HInst;
    wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject( BLACK_BRUSH );
    wc.lpszMenuName = NULL;
    wc.lpszClassName = ctx->AppName;
    DWORD so;
    if (!RegisterClass( &wc ))
        so = GetLastError();

and now I get an error 87 - bad parameter

Anyone "upgrade" and have similar problems?

On a side note, I have previously tried to get the mousewheel working in 
my code. But
I get a compile error when I try to use WM_MOUSEWHEEL - undefined

There seems to be some magic defines you need to set to get this to 
compile... Something to do with
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400
#define _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x500

but it doesn't seem to work for me. Perhaps there is more magic in the 
ordering or something.

Anyway, any help would be sweet.

Thanks,

-Joe