Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++® .NET in 24 Hours

Summary

Visual Studio .NET has really ramped up event handling compared to previous versions of Visual Studio. Through the use of delegates, developers now have an easier way to encapsulate function pointers within class declarations than was possible before. You don't have to deal with static or global functions to deal with callbacks. You no longer have to deal with the intricacies of connection points in COM. The Unified Event Model allows you to easily create, fire, and handle events, regardless of whether your application uses native C++ code, COM, or managed C++ code.

This hour you learned some of the details behind delegates and how they work within a managed environment. By going under the hood to investigate how the attributes expand ...