Developing applications with Visual Studio. NET
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Overview
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.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewRichard Grimes has gone deep into the heart of .NET development and lived to tell the tale -- in Developing Applications with Visual Studio .NET. This legendary Windows developer mastered .NET the hard way: by writing hundreds of test applications, stepping through them with debuggers, and poring over pseudo assembly language code with the Intermediate Language Disassembler. He never takes the official documentation's word for it -- which is super helpful where no documentation exists!
Writing for experienced C++ Win32 developers, Grimes begins with an in-depth introduction to the .NET runtime -- including the role of assemblies and metadata. Next, he introduces .NET's crucial Framework Class Library, which is in some ways profoundly different from the Win32 API, in other ways deeply familiar (some parts are merely wrappers over Win32; maybe Microsoft didn't have time to reconceive them).
You'll find in-depth coverage of contexts, remoting, COM/COM+ interoperation, and (when you're ready to appreciate it) the Visual Studio.NET environment. There's a full chapter on Visual C++.NET, which Grimes considers the most flexible .NET language; start-to-finish coverage of creating, constructing, and deploying solutions; and detailed debugging coverage (for managed and unmanaged code). Simply an outstanding resource. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. He served for nearly ten years as vice president of a New Jerseybased marketing company, where he supervised a wide range of graphics and web design projects. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
Two framework developers introduce a patterns approach to framework development, demonstrating useful techniques and solutions for successful framework development. Suitable for the proficient object- oriented programmer. Includes two valuable appendices: a section on frameworks and components and the IBM San Francisco frameworks development process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)