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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 .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

About the Authors

Julian Templeman first touched fingers to keypunch in 1972 and has since programmed systems all the way up to CDC supercomputers. He currently runs a training and consulting company in London, specializing in .NET, .COM, and Java. Julian has written several programming books, including titles on C# and ATL COM.

Andy Olsen is a freelance consultant and trainer specializing in C++, C#, and related .NET Framework technologies. He has been creating applications with Microsoft development tools for more than 15 years and working with C++ since the late 1980s.