How do I instantiate a self written class inside a Windows Form?

I thought it would be fairly simple but no matter I do, I get tons of errors

Code:

class stuff
{
	int account;
	string content;

public: 

	stuff()
	{
		account = 1;
		content = "null";
	}

	stuff(int acc, string cont)
	{
		account = acc;
		content = cont;
	}
	
	~stuff(){};

	int GetAccount()
	{
		return account;
	}
	
	string GetContent()
	{
		return content;
	}

	void SetAccount(int Account)
	{
		account = Account;
	}

	void SetContent(string Content)
	{
		content = Content;
	}
};

That's my humble class. All I'm trying to do is declare a variable of the type stuff .

I inserted a new method under the public keyword in the code pre-created by Visual Studio:

Code:

void DoSomething()
		{
			int number = 119;
			String ^name = "Something";

			stuff s(211, "Nothing");

		};

When putting a parenthesis behind s, Visual Studio displays both available constructors for s but I still get the following errors:
Error 1 error C2065: 'stuff' : undeclared identifier
Error 2 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 's'
Error 3 error C3861: 's': identifier not found
Error 4 error C2065: 'stuff' : undeclared identifier
Error 5 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 's'
Error 6 error C3861: 's': identifier not found

What went wrong?

Thanks in advance.

>> String ^name = "Something";

What's with the stray '^'?

>> stuff s(211, "Nothing");

Be careful using constructors like that. In some cases, the compiler construes it as a function declaration! Rather:

stuff s = stuff(211, "Nothing");

Originally Posted by Sebastiani

What's with the stray '^'?

Probably C++/CLI.

Originally Posted by Sebastiani

Be careful using constructors like that. In some cases, the compiler construes it as a function declaration! Rather:

stuff s = stuff(211, "Nothing");

No, it should be fine in this case, and in fact I would argue that it should be preferred to the copy initialisation that you showed. Frankly, I cannot duplicate the problem with the MinGW port of g++ 3.4.5 (after commenting out that C++/CLI line, at least).

My guess is that the problem is related to this being C++/CLI. But that language is strange.

Thanks for the reply.

What's with the stray '^'?

System::String apparently needs it, I got more errors without that.

My guess is that the problem is related to this being C++/CLI. But that language is strange.

I see.
Was a bad thing I combined C/C++ code with C/CLI code pre-generated by Visual Studio?

I just tried again with some code from an SDK tutorial and it worked, kind of

My main intention had been to first use a self made function in a windows forms application and I guess that worked, even though displaying some text in the title of the window didn't work the way I expected.

I couldn't use a string and I have difficulties returning a char array (how would I do that?) and I can't seem to get the pointer/address combination right to use an already existing array as parameter and change it inside the function.

PS: putting square brackets for arrays after the variable name instead of the type name confuses me every time >_>