Visual C++(r).NET Developer's Guide [Paperback]

John Mueller (Author)

Book Description

Series: Applications Development | Publication Date: January 10, 2002

This developer's guide provides a resource for the professional developer seeking to create complex, robust and high performance applications with visual C++.Net. It covers how to build multiple applications for the Web and the desktop through extensive coverage on ADO, ADO+, threads, active directory, attributed programming, security, debugging, graphic animation and streaming video. It explains visual C++.NET's relationship to the .NET framework and how to utilize Visual C++.NET's debugging capability. Readers can learn programming techniques to integrate graphic animation and streaming video into a site and how to make applications PDA-compatible and understand and design a secure application. The CD contains all of the book's source code.

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From the Back Cover

Engineer Your Way to Excellence

Maximize the capabilities of Visual C++ .NET using the advanced development strategies presented in this professional resource. Inside, you'll find full details on using threads and graphics, working within the .NET Framework, handling database integration, ensuring security, creating administrative tools, and much more. Build and deploy robust Visual C++ .NET applications that take full advantage of the innovative features of this powerful development tool.

• Build managed and unmanaged (native EXE) desktop applications
• Maximize machine resources using threads
• Utilize the Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI)
• Take full advantage of ADO.NET for database management
• Work with Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI)
• Reduce development time using attributed programming
• Write distributed applications using Simple Object Access Model (SOAP)
• Understand how Web Services can help you develop applications faster
• Use the Windows Security and Cryptography APIs
• Develop customized Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins

On the CD-ROM:

• All source code from the book

About the Author

John Mueller (La Valle, WI) is a freelance author and technical editor. He has written 46 books and almost 200 articles on topics ranging from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads-down programming. He is the author of Osborne's COM+ Developer's Guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (January 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072132817
• ISBN-13: 978-0072132816
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,252,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Mueller is a freelance author and technical editor. He has writing in his blood, having produced 87 books and over 300 articles to date. The topics range from networking to artificial intelligence and from database management to heads down programming. His most recent book is "Windows Command Line Administration Instant Reference" (Sybex, ISBN: 978-0-470-65046-2). His technical editing skills have helped over 52 authors refine the content of their manuscripts. You can reach John on the Internet at [e-mail] and his Web site at: http://www.mwt.net/~jmueller/.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Should Have Been Titled Visual C++ 6 Developer's Guide, February 14, 2002

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Davin Mickelson (White Bear Township, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visual C++(r).NET Developer's Guide (Paperback)

This book covers (lightly touches without digging in) much of the classic VC++6 technology using the new VC++ .NET. It covers MFC ISAPI extensions and filters, code signing, OLE DB, ADO, ODBC, creating Help files, classic InstallShield scripts, Windows Installer (v1.2 with VS6), MMC app development via the MMC ATL template, SOAP, MFC, and all the VS tools.
There are two pages dedicated to ADO.NET and it states that it is Microsoft's vision. ( I have been programming this "vision" for a year already. No code samples included or even code snippets (although there was supposed to be some, as mentioned on the cover and in the Unit Header on page 251).
Very little Managed C++ in this book. There are a few examples in Chapters 13 and 14. There is some text here about .NET such as the IL Disassembler (ILDASM.EXE). No mysteries revealed here, though. Text in Chapter 12 compares C# to C++.
Extensive coverage of ODBC.NET (2 chapters) - an add-on for VS.NET. Note that this is not to be confused with ADO.NET.
Some material included on attribute-based programming and working with delegates.
The author is quite knowledgeable and skilled at developing applications with Visual Studio 6. I will use this book when developing classic COM applications with VC++ .NET. I liked the explanations of the many tools that come with VC++ 6/.NET (for example, six pages on the Dependency Walker).
Want to write multi-threaded MFC applications? This is the book.

Want to learn VC++.NET? Look at the MSPress Step-by-Step (ISBN: 0735615675) book (The MSPress Deluxe Learning Edition (ISBN: 0735616353) contains the Step-By-Step book plus VC++.NET).

Apress just put out a good book (ISBN: 1893115283) on Managed C++ with interoperability/migration tips for classic C++. This book was written by the VC++.NET developers at MS.

I gave this book three stars because of the misleading topics mentioned that were included. I would have gave two stars but the content is good for classic COM development.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Transitional Book, February 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Visual C++(r).NET Developer's Guide (Paperback)

This is the first book that I've seen that understands the problems that developers face today. .NET is not the end all solution for every programming problem, it's a nice new technology that doesn't really support older applications. I found this book refreshing in that it tells how to transition from Visual C++ 6 to Visual C++ .NET. It contains programming examples from both worlds and helps the reader move from one to the other. For example, I found great examples that show how to use existing components in .NET applications and vice versa--how to use new components I create in my old applications. OK, so this book doesn't ignore Visual C++ 6 and cover Visual C++ .NET to the exclusion of everything else--that's the reason I find it so helpful. If you're looking for a straight Visual C++ .NET book that ignores the realities of development today, this isn't the book for you. However, if you're like me and need to develop applications in a mixed environment, then this is just the place to look.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I was hoping for better..., February 24, 2003

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Wicket (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visual C++(r).NET Developer's Guide (Paperback)

After reading the reviews here at amazon.com, I decided to order this book. I've been working with Visual C++ 6.0 before, but I'm right now changing to .NET. This book seemd to be the one for me.

Well, it wasn't. I just don't lika the way the author writes. Some authors can get you just drawling for more, and eager to get started. Well, this one didn't. I also don't like the authors way of focusin so much on distributed progams. Sure, distributed programming is an growing area, but still, lots of non distributed, desctop applications are made!

After reading about half the book, I gave up. Instead I went for "Special Edition, Using Visual C++ .NET", and I have just started reading it. I hope it will give me a little bit more.