C++CLI Primer For .NET Development

✍ Scribed by Vivek Ragunathan

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 84
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Enter a world of hardcore back-end, server-side enterprise programming on the .NET platform. This book presents some of the important aspects of the C++/CLI language that often become a barrier preventing programmers from exploring further. The C++/CLI Primer is a powerful but compact book that will guide you through that barrier. Many of todays complex transactions and enterprise applications count on C++/CLI. Visual Studio 2015 and earlier versions support C++/CLI if you program using an IDE. C++/CLI is unattractive, clumsy, and hard when compared to other modern languages that run on the .NET platform. Thats because it is powerful. Like light that can be viewed as a wave or particle, C++/CLI can be exercised as an unmanaged or managed or actually as the sandwich language to do mixed mode programming, which is its real power. Thats also why it is unique.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Words of Agreement....Pages 3-4
Unmanaged Programming Brief....Pages 5-5
Managed Programming Brief....Pages 7-8
What Is C++\CLI?....Pages 9-10
Types and Object Creation....Pages 11-12
Primitive Types Mapping....Pages 13-15
User-Defined Value Types....Pages 17-18
Reference Types....Pages 19-20
Garbage Collection Intro....Pages 21-22
Declaring and Consuming a Managed Class....Pages 23-26
Boxing/Unboxing....Pages 27-29
Object Destruction....Pages 31-38
Scope of a Managed Object....Pages 39-40
Mixed Mode....Pages 41-43
Equality and Identity....Pages 45-46
Abstract Classes....Pages 47-48
Nullptr....Pages 49-50
Declaring Properties....Pages 51-56
Strings....Pages 57-59
Arrays—Not [] But cli::array<T^>....Pages 61-63
A Second Look at GC....Pages 65-70
Generics....Pages 71-78
The Beginning....Pages 79-79
Back Matter....Pages 81-83