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Your hands-on, self-study guide for building applications and services with Visual C++ .NET version 2003

Teach yourself Visual C++ .NET version 2003—and begin developing applications and services for Microsoft .NET—one step at a time. This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly guides you through the fundamentals—from writing managed code to running and debugging your first .NET-ready programs. Work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises to learn essential techniques. And accelerate your productivity by working with instructive code and best development practices for Visual C++ .NET version 2003. Topics include inheritance and object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques, debugging, exception handling, operator overloading, the .NET Framework version 1.1, integration with Microsoft Windows® .NET Server 2003, Windows Forms, Web services, ATL, data access with XML and Microsoft ADO.NET, migrating legacy applications, and more. The authors are highly respected C++ programmers, trainers, and consultants who know how to quickly advance your expertise.

Contents

• Getting started with C++ .NET
  • Hello C++!
  • Introducing object-oriented programming
  • Variables and operators
  • Using functions
  • Decision and loop statements
• More about object-oriented programming
  • More about classes and objects
  • Controlling Object lifetimes
  • Inheritance
• Microsoft.Net programming basics
  • Value types
  • Operator overloading
  • Exception handling
  • Arrays and collections
  • Properties
  • Delegates and events
• Using the .net framework
  • The .net framework class library
  • Introducing Windows forms
  • Dialog boxes and controls
  • Graphical output
  • Working with files
• Data access
  • Reading and writing XML
  • Transforming XML
  • Using ADO.NET
• Creating distributed applications
  • Building a web service
  • Introducing to ATL server
• Advanced topics
  • Working with unmanaged code
  • Attributes and reflection
  • Living with COM
  • Index