CHAPTER 3Building C++/CLI Programs forthe Common Language Runtimewith Visual C++

This chapter is a necessary distraction from your main purpose, which is to learn about the C++/CLI language. In this chapter, you'll find some important information that is not specifically related to the language syntax, but to the platform, compiler, and development tools. There's a great deal to the CLR and the .NET Framework; entire books have been written on the subject. This chapter can't begin to cover everything in detail, so it'll just touch upon some of the key concepts and give a few examples that will get you started.

While most of what this book covers will pertain to any implementation of the CLI, in this chapter I assume you are using Visual C++, ...

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