C++/CLI Primer: For .NET Development

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 today’s 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. That’s 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. That’s also why it is unique.

What You’ll Learn

• Discover C++/CLI and why is it used in .NET programming
• Work with types, primitive types, object creation, and managed and abstract classes
• Use abstract classes in C++/CLI
• Harness the power of nullptre
• Implement code that uses boxing/unboxing
• Use equality/identity, properties, enums, strings, arrays, and more

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Microsoft .NET application developers, familiar with .NET framework and C++.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Words of Agreement
Chapter 3: Unmanaged Programming Brief
Chapter 4: Managed Programming Brief
Chapter 5: What Is C++\CLI?
Chapter 6: Ty pes and Object Creation
Chapter 7: Primitive Ty pes Mapping
Chapter 8: User-Def ined Value Types
Chapter 9: Reference Ty pes
Chapter 10: Garbage Collection Intro
Chapter 11: Declaring and Consuming a Managed Class
Chapter 12: Boxing/Unboxing
Chapter 13: Object Destruction
Chapter 14: Scope of a Managed Object
Chapter 15: Mixed Mode
Chapter 16: Equality and Identity
Chapter 17: Abstract Classes
Chapter 18: Nullptr
Chapter 19: Declaring Properties
Chapter 20: Strings
Chapter 21: Arrays—Not [] But cli:: array<T^>
Chapter 22: A Second Look at GC
Chapter 23: Generics
Chapter 24: The Beginning