Trouble with GetCurrentDirectory/SetCurrentDirectory

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I am writing a plug-in to another program in the form of a dll with VC++ .NET. Because I didn't want to have to start the host program every time I changed something, I developed the GUI part of the plug-in separately as a console-application. Now when I moved my GUI back to the dll I get compile errors with GetCurrentDirectory and SetCurrentDirectory and I have no idea why.

 

Code-snippets:

String* path = Directory::GetCurrentDirectory();
Directory::SetCurrentDirectory(myPath);

 

My compile errors:

error C2039: 'GetCurrentDirectoryA' : is not a member of 'System::IO::Directory'
       D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\include\vcclr.h(15) : see declaration of 'System::IO::Directory'
error C2660: 'GetCurrentDirectoryA' : function does not take 0 parameters
error C2039: 'SetCurrentDirectoryA' : is not a member of 'System::IO::Directory'
       D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\include\vcclr.h(15) : see declaration of 'System::IO::Directory'
error C2664: 'SetCurrentDirectoryA' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'System::String __gc *' to 'LPCSTR'
       Cannot convert a managed type to an unmanaged type

 

If anyone could tell me why this happens I would be ever grateful. Other System::IO::Directory functions seem to work.

[Erk1024]

Okay, this is evil.

 

What happened is that you have included an (unmanaged) windows header file that has a macro defined like this

#define SetCurrentDirectory(...) SetCurrentDirectoryA()

 

The same thing happens with calls to MessageBox. The solution is to undef the macros:

 

#undef MessageBox

#undef SetCurrentDirectory

 

 

I am writing a plug-in to another program in the form of a dll with VC++ .NET. Because I didn't want to have to start the host program every time I changed something, I developed the GUI part of the plug-in separately as a console-application. Now when I moved my GUI back to the dll I get compile errors with GetCurrentDirectory and SetCurrentDirectory and I have no idea why.

 

Code-snippets:

String* path = Directory::GetCurrentDirectory();
Directory::SetCurrentDirectory(myPath);

 

My compile errors:

error C2039: 'GetCurrentDirectoryA' : is not a member of 'System::IO::Directory'
       D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\include\vcclr.h(15) : see declaration of 'System::IO::Directory'
error C2660: 'GetCurrentDirectoryA' : function does not take 0 parameters
error C2039: 'SetCurrentDirectoryA' : is not a member of 'System::IO::Directory'
       D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\include\vcclr.h(15) : see declaration of 'System::IO::Directory'
error C2664: 'SetCurrentDirectoryA' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'System::String __gc *' to 'LPCSTR'
       Cannot convert a managed type to an unmanaged type

 

If anyone could tell me why this happens I would be ever grateful. Other System::IO::Directory functions seem to work.