Preface

 

“The chief merit of language is clearness ...”

 
 --Galen

Welcome to Visual C++ 2008 and Visual C++ 2008 How to Program, Second Edition! At Deitel & Associates, we write programming language textbooks and professional books for Prentice Hall, deliver corporate training courses worldwide and develop Web 2.0 Internet businesses. This book reflects significant changes to the Visual C++ language and to the preferred ways of teaching and learning programming. The book is based on our C++-standard-compliant textbook C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition and is intended for courses that offer a Microsoft-specific C++ programming focus.

Since the first edition of Visual C++ How to Program, Microsoft has changed the way C++ interacts with the .NET Framework—the ...

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