VC++ 6.0 problem with Afxres.h

[Steve Cain]

Can anyone please help? I am new to VC++ and I have a problem when trying to create a new project. When I use the MFC AppWizard to create a dialogue based project I get an error message:

"Fatal Error RC1015: Cannot open include file Afxres.h"

Originally, I found that the Include directory was missing from the C:\Program files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\MFC\ directory. A re-install fixed that but the problem still remains with the above error.

The Afxres.h is not being created when the new project is created and I guess that this is an include library that cannot be found.

If anyone can help, I would be grateful, the tech support guys here have not seen this before. I am running VC++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition under NT4.

Thanks,

[CornedBee]

afxres.h declares all the constants MFC uses for the predefined menu etc. I have no idea why the compiler can't find it, but yoú can do the following: if your project is not MFC, you can open the .rc file in a text editor and manually replace every occurence of afxres.h with winresrc.h. The problem is that you need to do this every time you add or modify a resource, since dumb VC++ undoes your change.