C++ for VB Programmers

By: Jonathan Morrison

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CD-ROM | 21 September 2000

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Visual Basic is the most popular programming language in the world today. It can be used to quickly create a Windows application and has a short learning curve. However, there are limits to what Visual basic alone can do. By contrast, C++ is used for very complex and advanced systems programming and it has a very steep leaning curve. Because of the difference between the two languages, many programmers develop expertise in either one language or the other. The optimal situation would be for a programmer to be able to harness the power of C++ and take advantage of VB, thus allowing them to create Windows software in the most efficient manner possible. This book teaches VB programmers what they need to know in order to combine these two powerful tools and create truly world-class applications. This book is what Visual Basic programmers have long desired: a book that uses thier existing knowledge as a framework to teach the skills they need to move to the next level, C++. Jonathan Morrison has over five years of experience developing applications in both Visual Basic and C++. He has vast experience integrating Visual Basic and C++ in enterprise environments.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Programming & Software Development Object-Oriented Programming or OOP Programming & Scripting Languages Software Engineering

Introduction	p. xiii
Focus and Benefits	p. xiii
Style of Presentation	p. xiv
Prerequisites	p. xiv
Why C++? (And Why with Visual Basic)	p. 1
Why Visual Basic Was Created	p. 2
The Next Step	p. 4
Conclusion	p. 4
Where Do We Start?	p. 5
Visual Studio	p. 5
C++ Runtime Environment	p. 9
Visual C++ Debugging Environment	p. 11
Conclusion	p. 15
How Do You Do That Voodoo That You Do?	p. 17
Compiling	p. 18
Linking	p. 20
C Preprocessor	p. 21
Memory	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 31
C++ 101	p. 33
Data and Variables	p. 33
Standard Library Functions	p. 38
Program Structure	p. 40
Operators	p. 50
Loops and Control Statements	p. 61
Conclusion	p. 66
It's Not Polite to Point	p. 67
What Is a Pointer?	p. 67
Allocating Memory for Pointers	p. 73
Strings and Char Pointers	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 79
Classes	p. 81
Class Dismissed	p. 81
C++ Classes	p. 88
Inheritance	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 108
Templates	p. 109
Understanding Templates	p. 109
Using a Template Class	p. 115
Conclusion	p. 121
Putting It All Together	p. 123
The Application Requirements	p. 123
The Application Design	p. 123
The fileBreaker.cpp File	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 167
What's the DLL, Man?	p. 169
When a DLL is Not Really a DLL	p. 169
The Basics of DLLs	p. 170
Conclusion	p. 182
Your First Real DLL	p. 183
TrayMan.DLL	p. 183
Creating the TrayMan.DLL Interface	p. 189
Implementing TrayMan.DLL	p. 201
The Client Application	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 223
An ATL Primer	p. 225
COM and Interfaces	p. 225
ATL	p. 228
Conclusion	p. 240
The COM Project	p. 241
Creating the Project	p. 241
Adding the Methods	p. 243
Implementing the Interface	p. 249
Looking at the Client Application	p. 268
Conclusion	p. 276
Advanced Topics	p. 277
The DLLMain Function	p. 277
Multithreading	p. 280
Sharing Data in a DLL	p. 295
Scripting the IDE	p. 297
Conclusion	p. 300
A Thread to Visual Basic	p. 301
Just Because You Can, Doesn't Always Mean thatYou Should	p. 301
A Quick Review of Multithreading	p. 302
The Threading Contract	p. 310
The CreateThread API	p. 312
The CreateThread API Revisited	p. 316
Conclusion	p. 320
Visual Basic Strings: The BSTR Data Type	p. 323
What Is a BSTR^?	p. 323
Using_bstr_t	p. 325
Conclusion	p. 333
Article 3. Strings the OLE Way	p. 335
Unicode Versus ANSI	p. 336
What Is a BSTR?	p. 340
The String Class	p. 349
Index	p. 367
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