Differences between Visual C++ 6.0 and .NET

[William DePalo [MVP VC++]]

"Ken" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> What are the differences between Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual C++.NET?
> Any books are good for beginner? (I can write in VB but I don't know any
C++ language)
> (please suggest book name and publisher)

VC++ 6.0 is a tool used to build "native" (x86 machine code) with the Win32
API or any of a number of API sets built on it - ATL, MFC etc - using a
pre-standard version of C++.

The C++ compiler In the Visual Studio .Net product is capable of everything
that 6.0 can do, it supports very nearly all (somewhat subjective
estimation) of standard C++ AND it brings C++ to bear on .Net development
tasks as well.

Regards,
Will

[EMonaco]

In addition to what William said, I would add the first book I bought was
"Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Step by Step" from Microsoft Press. Its pretty
good. Although it covers things more from a .NET than a VC++ angle. It does
go into using managed as well as unmanaged code which is very helpful. If
your looking to rely more heavily on the .NET this would be a good start. If
you want to be able to mix and match managed/unmanged code then you'll also
need to become more familar with VC++, MFC, ATL, etc. There are lots of
books out there for these too, to many in fact for me to just recommend one
or two without really doing some homework :) I often find that I am going
through the TOC of many of my books scanning for pertainent topics. More
often than not I end up scanning the many source code sites, newgroups and
doing general web searches as well... there is just so much out there.

Regards,
Erin.

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[Gaz]

"EMonaco" <erinm...@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> In addition to what William said, I would add the first book I bought was
> "Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Step by Step" from Microsoft Press. Its pretty
> good. Although it covers things more from a .NET than a VC++ angle. It
does
> go into using managed as well as unmanaged code which is very helpful. If
> your looking to rely more heavily on the .NET this would be a good start.

I'm reading "Visual C++®.NET How To Program" Deitel, Deteil, Liperi, Yaeger.
I'm about halfway through and it's fairly easy going. Then I went to a
bookshop today and saw the above book "Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Step by
Step" and it seems to fill in a lot of unexplained stuff and I like the
author's style too. These two books complement each other very well indeed.

If you want to get into programming in C++.NET I recommend you invest in
both of these books!

Gaz