Table of Contents

Section I. Fast Track to C++/CLI.- Introduction. Inspiration. Motivation.- Basic Syntax Changes.- Data types.- Native and Managed Memory Management.- Pointers.- User Defined Conversions.- Properties, Events, Delegates.- XML comments.- Section II. How to Convert C# Applications To C++/CLI.- Converting basic C# applications to C++/CLI.- More on inheritance.- Secure Coding.- C# to C++ Differences.- Section III. Advanced Concepts.- Generic Programming.- Templates.- C++ Under the hood.-.NET binaries.- Visual C++ 2005 Project Configuration.- Visual C++ 2005 Debugging.

About the Author

Dean C. Wills is a freelance programmer with over 20 years of experience in system programming areas such as BIOS, assembly language, C, and C++. He is the owner of Sandpaper Software and has worked for companies such as Compucorp, Cyrix, National Semiconductor, and Virtio. He was a developer on the Visual C++ front-end during the Visual Studio 2005 ship cycle.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This book is designed to guide C# programmers in how to use C++ in the Visual Studio environment. Thus, this book fills a definite need. … The book concentrates on the extensions to C++ found in Visual Studio 2005, which makes it compatible with the newer features of programming languages found in C# (and frequently in Java). … This book is clearly intended for a specialized audience, and it appears to be well thought out and focused." (J. Miller, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (8), August, 2008)