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VC++
Professional Projects
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Sripriya and
Sai Kishore
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VC++
Professional Projects
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About NIIT
NIIT is a global IT solutions corporation with a presence in 38 countries. With its unique business model and technology-creation capabilities, NIIT delivers software and learning solutions to more than 1,000 clients across the world.
The success of NIIT’s training solutions lies in its unique approach to education. NIIT’s Knowledge Solutions Business conceives, researches, and develops all of its course material. A rigorous instructional design methodology is followed to create engaging and compelling course content.
NIIT trains over 200,000 executives and learners each year in information technology areas using stand-up training, video-aided instruction, computer-based training (CBT), and Internet-based training (IBT). NIIT has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest number of learners trained in one year!
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About the Authors
Sripriya is an MCSD and has been working in various capacities as a technical trainer, technical writer, instructional designer, and an ID reviewer since August 1997. Sripriya has three years of experience in teaching various career programs at NIIT’s Career Education Group division. She has taught various technical subject areas, including Networking Essentials, SQL Server 6.5, Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 98, Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Windows 32 API programming, HTML, Microsoft Visual Java, Unix, C, and C++. She has also set up and managed labs for students and has administered Novell 3.11 and UNIX (SCO)–based networks.
Sai Kishore is a programmer with six years of experience teaching programming. He currently works at the Knowledge Solutions Business of NIIT as a consultant and develops e-learning applications for various platforms. Previously, he was a technical trainer who conducted training on C, C++, Unix systems programming, Powerbuilder, DB-Library, Pro C (Oracle), Windows programming using C, Visual C++, and Visual Basic.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Part I Introducing VC++.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Basics of .NET Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Basics of VC++.NET Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 Creating a User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4 Working with Menus, Dialog Boxes, and Window Controls. 71 5 The Document/View Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 6 Threads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
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7 Database Management Using ODBC – An Overview . . . 159 8 Implementing Data Access Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 9 Debugging and Exception Handling in VC++.NET . . . . 263
Part III |
Professional Project – 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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10 Introduction to Managed Extensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 11 Introduction to GDI+, Events, and Delegates . . . . . . . . . 319 12 Creating a Managed Extensions Application . . . . . . . . . . 347
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Professional Project – 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Introduction to ADO.NET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Implementing ADO.NET in a Managed C++ Application. 469 |
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Part V |
Professional Project – 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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15 Introduction to ASP.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 16 Creating a Class Library and Using It in an
ASP.NET Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
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Professional Project – 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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17 Introduction to COM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559