Hour 3. Writing a Simple C++ .NET Program

Inevitably every programming book and programming course has you create as your first application—a simple “Hello World” program. Therefore, this hour's lesson is dedicated to writing your first simple application with Visual C++ .NET.

The difference is, this lesson already assumes you know how to create a simple application and are at least somewhat experienced with the previous version of Visual C++. With that assumption, the lesson will take you through creating two applications: one with MFC and one using the .NET Framework. This allows you to compare the two methods of programming Windows applications with Visual C++ .NET.

In this hour you will learn:

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