Re: Suggestions for a Rusty C++ Developer?

I agree with Alexander's list of books.

Moreover, if the OP is going to use MFC for development (to make the
development process easier than using pure Win32 SDK), he may consider also
the great book by Jeff Prosise: "Programming Windows with MFC" 2nd edition,
MS Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Windows-MFC-Jeff-Prosise/dp/1572316950

Giovanni


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Actually, the language is the least of your worries (even though C++
is probably the most complicated programming language in mass
use these days). The operating environment simply dwarves it in
terms of complexity. E.g. you need to learn Win32 programming.
I'd start with some excellent books (belueve me this isn't for tutorials):

"Programming Windows" fifth edition by Charles Petzold, MS Press

"Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows" by Jeffrey Richter,
MS Press

I'd then augment that with at least an introduction to COM, since it
is so pervasive in (non-.NET) Windows development:

"Inside COM" by Dale Rogerson, MS Press

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"TWP" <TWP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've been going mostly .NET and Java development for the past nine years,
with the last five focused on C#. I'd like to get my feet wet a bit with
Windows programming in C++, mainly to get a little more under the hood
and
possibly to do some Windows Mobile development, most of which seems to be
geared around C++ (at least to do anything very useful). I took a
semester of
C++ ("Introduction to Programming in C++) in college in 1998 and did
well. On
a scale of one to ten, I'd consider myself probably an eight as far as C#
skills go. Does anyone have any suggestions about refreshers/tutorials
(on
MSDN or otherwise) that I should check out? Something like "C++ for C#
developers" :-)

Thanks!

TWP




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