The Visual Studio.NET book every Visual C++ developer has been waiting for! Practical, substantive, meaty .NET solutions for experienced Windows developers. Covers SOAP, Managed C++, WinForms, Web Services, ATL Server, and much more. By best-selling author and legendary COM/ATL guru Richard Grimes! This is the.NET book C++ developers have been waiting for: a meaty, practical guide to Visual Studio.NET programming from one of the world's leading authorities on Microsoft development. Best-selling COM/ATL author Richard Grimes begins by reviewing the fundamental concepts that underlie the .NET Runtime, including managed vs. unmanaged code, garbage collection, the Microsoft Intermediate Language, type information, and metadata. Next, Grimes introduces the .NET Class Libraries -- first at a high level, and then with far greater detail about the libraries that will be of greatest value. Grimes covers contexts and remoting, introducing serialization, marshalling, channels and SOAP, and the role of Web services as an interoperability mechanism. Once readers are solidly grounded in .NET, Grimes turns to Visual Studio.NET: its facilities, tools, and project structure, ranging from project management issues to Web discovery. In Part III, Grimes offers comprehensive coverage of using Visual Studio.NET to build advanced applications. He presents detailed coverage of managed C++ written for experienced C++ developers; a thorough walkthrough of C++ development with WinForms designed to help developers migrate from Win32; extensive coverage of Microsoft's ATL Server and web application/service development; and finally, a full chapter on debugging. For every experienced Windows developer familiar with Visual C++. Richard Grimes is an independent consultant on COM, ATL, and .NET who has built a reputation as one of the world's leading COM experts. He is author or co-author of at least seven books, including ATL COM Programmer's Reference, ATL Programmer's Resource Kit, Beginning ATL 3 COM Programming, and Professional ATL COM Programming. He is currently an instructor with DevelopMentor. DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH VISUAL STUDIO.NET is an in-depth guide that takes Windows programming to the next level: creating .NET applications that leverage the prior knowledge and experience of C++ Win32 programmers. The .NET Framework supplies programmers with rich standard run-time services, supports the development of Web-based services, and provides both inter-language and inter-machine interoperability. Programmers can now focus on creating more complex, more distributed, and more Web-enabled applications. Providing developers with practical information they can use to develop stronger, more robust code faster and easier, this text covers SOAP, managed C++, WinForms, web services, ATL server and more. Discusses topics including Microsoft.NET, class libraries, contexts, asynchronous programming, interoperation and COM+, Visual C++ .NET, application development, and debugging.
