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Learn how to write solid Visual C++ .NET code today with this comprehensive reference—the latest edition of the industry’s most trusted text. It’s the complete programming guide for intermediate and advanced developers who want to create .NET applications with Visual C++ and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Focusing on core programming techniques, instructions, and solutions, this book shows you what’s new in Visual C++ .NET and walks you through the development life cycle with this powerful language. Get in-depth coverage of the language’s syntax, tools, and APIs—along with expert advice and timesaving techniques. Take advantage of complete, task-based instruction plus your Microsoft Windows and C++ programming skills to produce a new generation of killer Windows and .NET-based applications.Topics Covered Include:Fundamentals: Windows and Visual C++, MFC essentials and the MFC application wizard; Visual C++ .NET wizards; Windows message mapping; classic GDI functions, fonts, and bitmaps; dialog boxes; common controls and Microsoft ActiveX controls; Microsoft Win32 core memory management; Windows message processing and multithreaded programming. MFC document-view architecture: Menus, keyboard accelerators, the Rich Edit control, and property sheets; toolbars and status bars; a reusable frame Windows base class; separating the document from its view; reading and writing document—SDI and MDI applications; printing and print preview; splitter windows and multiple views; context-sensitive Help; dynamic link libraries, MFC programs without document or view classes. COM, automation, ActiveX and OLE: Automation and IDispatch, data transfer with Clipboard and OLE drag-and-drop, the Active Template Library, ActiveX Controls, OLEDB templates. Programming for the Internet: TCP/IP, Winsock, and WinINet; dynamic HTML; ATL Server. .NET and beyond: The .NET platform; .NET interoperability with managed C++; Windows Forms, GDI+, and .NET Web services with C++; Microsoft ADO.NET. About the Authors Besides writing .NET development tools for Suncfusion, George Shepherd teaches courses for DevelopMentor. For Microsoft Press, he has coauthored several editions of Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, plus Inside ATL. He has also written books about applied .NET programming and MFC internals and is a contributing editor at MSDN Magazine.David Kruglinski was on the team that originally created Microsoft Visual C++. |