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I get a Link error using Application Wizard and then trying to build (Debug):

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ’ProfUIS263md.lib’

Of course it is an error because it does not exist, but how do I create it?

Thanks,
Wes Garrard

You have to build the libraries. From the "Getting started with Prof-UIS guide":
"1. Setting Paths and Compiling

After completing the installation, you need to set up the required paths. This can be done either with the Prof-UIS Integration Wizard, or manually. The first way is simple and straightforward: Just select the check box Set Prof-UIS paths in Microsoft Visual Studio Environment Variables and click on the Next button. The second is described below.

Select Options from the Tools menu. Open Directories tab in Visual Studio 6 or open the Projects folder and, then, select Visual C++ in Visual Studio 7.0/7.1/8.0. In the Show directories for drop-down list, specify file types and corresponding paths according to the following table:
File types     Paths     Visual Studio
Include files     .../Prof-UIS/Include     6.0, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0
.../Prof-UIS/Src
Source files     .../Prof-UIS/Include
.../Prof-UIS/Src
Library files     .../Prof-UIS/Bin_600     6.0
.../Prof-UIS/Bin_700     7.0
.../Prof-UIS/Bin_710     7.1
.../Prof-UIS/Bin_800     8.0

Use the Prof-UIS Integration Wizard or Visual Studio’s Batch build (or Configuration manager) to compile Prof-UIS and its samples to any of the available build configurations. Prof-UIS samples serve on one hand as an example of how your application may look, and on the other, they should help you implement library’s features in your products."

Sorry, I found it. I failed to compile ProfUISDLL for MBCS Debug (and Release).

That does however bring up a question. Does the ProfUIS App Wizard allow for changing this to for instance ANSI or Unicode and if not how is this changed manually, say for instance to ANSI.

Thanks,
Wes Garrard

Neither Prof-UIS, nor MFC Application Wizard allows you to change the character set, but you can change it manually afterward. In Project menu find the Project Properties menu entry (appearing as "your project name" Properties...). In VS2003 you can find the Character Set property under General category. Under VS2005 it is Configuration Properties -> General -> Project Defaults -> Character Set. There you can switch to ANSI. Just take care to change it both for Debug and Release configuration. You can find out more about Prof-UIS configurations in this article.