Teach yourself the latest version of Visual C++—and begin developing 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-based applications and XML Web services. 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 practices for .NET development with Visual C++.

Discover how to:

• Write and run a simple object-oriented program
• Delve deeper with inheritance and other OOP techniques
• Execute code with the Visual Studio .NET debugger
• Exploit built-in .NET support for properties, arrays, and events
• Generate and handle exceptions
• Implement operator overloading
• Examine the .NET Framework 1.1, exploring major namespaces and classes
• Use Windows Forms to create GUI applications
• Access data using XML and Microsoft ADO.NET
• Create and use Web services
• Build Web service components with ATL
• Make legacy applications .NET-ready

CD Inside Includes sample code, practice exercises, and eBook

CD features:

• Code examples in Visual C++ .NET 2003
• All the book’s practice files
• Fully searchable eBook