Conventions For This Appendix

Note that this appendix adopts an additional convention when displaying code; C# code is always displayed with gray shading:

 // this is C# code class MyClass : MyBaseClass { 

Any new or important C# code is displayed in bold:

 // this is C# code class MyClass : MyBaseClass // we've { int X;// this is interesting 

However, any C++ code presented for comparison is presented like this, without any shading:

// this is C++ code class CMyClass : public CMyBaseClass {

The sample code in this appendix also takes account of the most common naming conventions when using the two languages under Windows. Hence class names in the C++ examples begin with C, whereas the corresponding names in the C# examples do not. Also, Hungarian notation is often used for variable names in the C++ samples only.