Intro to MS Visual Studio

[rholowczak]

Folks
This is probably very basic for this crowd but there may be some folks who have never worked with Microsoft Visual Studio previously. Here are some thoughts on a tutorial I have been revising:
Getting Started with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 using C++
http://rholowczak.blogspot.com/2013/01/getting-started-with-microsoft-visual.html

Cheers,

Prof. H.

 

[Polter]

You can also read (freely available, click Read Excerpt 1 (PDF)) Chapter 1 from "Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2012," http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118368088.html

 

[tagoma]

I had the opportunity to read Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2010 a couple of months ago.
It is a good reading in my opinion (with much humility) as I am not a professional programmer.
One problem might be that those 1200 pages are just overwhelming, and I would have preferred it focuses only on standard C++. Anyway, Horton's 2010 book deserves attention, and I assume it is the same of the 2012 version.

 

[rholowczak]

Here is another tip. Many Universities subscribe to the "Books24x7" service. This service has tons of technology books on all sorts of database, programming language and other topics. The user-interface is a little clunky but if you are patient you can check out a ton of materials. I believe memberships in the IEEE Computer Society (about $50 a year for students) and memberships in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) also offer access to Books24x7.

Cheers,

Prof. H.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I had the opportunity to read Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2010 a couple of months ago.
It is a good reading in my opinion (with much humility) as I am not a professional programmer.
One problem might be that those 1200 pages are just overwhelming, and I would have preferred it focuses only on standard C++. Anyway, Horton's 2010 book deserves attention, and I assume it is the same of the 2012 version.

Does the book have lots of screen shots? Is Managed C++(C++/CLI) discussed?

One of the dangers is that newbies cannot distinguish between C++ and VS C++. A 'good' example in a plastics extrusion RT system in which all classes were derived from MFC base COobject. Now, it was a sticky one.... even the hardware controllers and application classes.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

You can also read (freely available, click Read Excerpt 1 (PDF)) Chapter 1 from "Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2012," http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118368088.html

Nice chapter.

Something for all QN C++ students.

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