stl fstream and macros on vs7

while working with visual studio 2003 / 7, c++, fstream, log files and macros, like the following:

#define LOGMACRO (format_string, ...) log (__FILE__, __LINE__, format_string, __VA_ARGS__)

got some errors:

error C2059: syntax error : '...'
error C2061: syntax error: identifier '_DebugHeapTag'
xdebug(29): _CRTIMP2 void * __cdecl operator new(size_t, const std::_DebugHeapTag_t&, char *, int)
_THROW1(std::bad_alloc); // allocate from the debug CRT heap

the solution was in 4 steps:

1. replacing all stl include files matching the pattern:

#include <string.h>
#include <fstream.h>

with header files without '.h' in their names, ex:

#include <string>
#include <fstream>

2. putting some parantheses around the parameters in the macro def. value, like:

#define LOGMACRO (format_string, ...) log (__FILE__, __LINE__, (format_string), __VA_ARGS__)

3. replacing '...' and '__VA_ARGS__' with a simple parameter. vs7 does not support varargs in macros.

#define LOGMACRO (format_string, args) log (__FILE__, __LINE__, (format_string), (args))

4. putting the fstream include in the last line of stdafx.h, removing from any other location in the source code like below.

#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

In addition to the things described above, here is a nice macro tutorial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_preprocessor