Converting project from VC++ 6.0 to Visual Studio 2005

[Ken Dullea]

I am working with MySQL 3.23 and have a fully developed project that was originally constructed with VC++ 6.0. It works well and has been successfully deployed for several years now.

I decided to try to convert the project so that I could work under the new Visual Studio 2005 environment. Upon initial compilation I received a daunting number of errors, nearly 400. A few of the errors related to my_socket not being correctly defined, and then many, many errors related to STL problems. For example, not being able to assign a VECTOR::iterator value to a VECTOR element pointer (*VECTOR).

My question is this: is there a known procedure for trying to convert the project from one development environment to another? Are there certain definitions that I must create in order for the proper headers to be included, etc.?

It seems strange that a working program should be viewed so differently by a similar development environment, but then perhaps standards have changed and changes have been made to the STL (for one example) that I have not kept up with.

Thanks in advance for any assistance that you can offer.