Programming with Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++ .NET--Version 2003

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Summary: Definitively this should NOT be your first book on C++ .NET
Review: A bit dissapointing.
This book is more about what not to do than about what to do or how to do it right. With the recently released new 2003 version of Visual Studio's the C++ compiler for the NET, it might, even, be a bit outdated.
If what you're looking for is a kind of tutorial book on managed extensions( such as myself) this isn't the right book.
Later, I got "Microsoft Visual C++ NET professional projects" and this is it. more than 1000 pages of practical advice, consistent and easy advice C++ and the .NET.
Maybe, after i get to know C++ more deeply "Programming with Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++ .NET" would become an interesting reading.

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Summary: Another great Richard Grimes book
Review: I cannot say it better than another reviewer "This book is typical of Grimes work...focused, lucid, and complete". This is a great book for learning Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++.Net.

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Summary: Another great Richard Grimes book
Review: I cannot say it better than another reviewer "This book is typical of Grimes work...focused, lucid, and complete". This is a great book for learning Managed Extensions for Microsoft Visual C++.Net.

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Summary: Where have you gone, Dr Grimes
Review: I have most of Richard Grime's books and have been a fan of his for some time. However, his last couple of books have been of extremely poor quality. It's as though the author simply took the Managed Extensions documentation and rushed out a book just to have a book on the subject. For example, there are less than 20 pages on multi-threading while there are 70 pages on interop! Since there are already tons of material on interop why so much material devoted to this - especially when 25 pages are PInvoke?! The book is very uneven and really provides almost nothing beyond what you can find in any MC++ literature. I would recommend instead MS Press' Visual C++ Step By Step or APress' Essential Guide to Managed Extensions as they are much more in touch with delivering unique content.

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Summary: None other
Review: I've been developing in C++ for 11 years and could not praise this volume enough. It's a thorough treatise on using managed extensions. If you're looking for intro or IDE walkthrough stuff, this is not your book. This book is typical of Grimes work...focused, lucid, and complete. This goes beside my Stroustrup and K&R references.

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Summary: Lean and Mean....
Review: If you are the type of person that already knows Visual C++ and all the MFC,ATL,... stuff. And now you just want to know how use the NET Framework in the C++ language. This is an ideal book for acomplishing that objective.
One of the things i hate in many tec. books it's that they tell the same 'story' over and over...and over again. In this case the author simply assumes that you know VC++ and introduces the NET Framework to you.
Chapter 5 is worth the money spent and deserves a reminder, the author gets down to the metal and explains the system internals of the NET Framework via VC++. Even if you don't buy the book you should read this chapter ......

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Summary: Badly organized and poorly written
Review: The organization of this book is terrible. It is full of forward references to topics not yet discussed, information is presented without any proper structure.

I will trust the judgement of others who know c++.NET better and say that the content is technically sound (I personally will reserve my opinion). As far as I am concerned, it all goes to waste due to its unreadable and incoherent organization and presentation.

It should have been titled "Random thoughts on managed c++".

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Summary: Where have you gone, Dr Grimes
Review: This book was full of useful information and was exactly what I wanted. I'm a .NET programmer and I wanted to find out how to write .NET code with C++. This book was hard to put down and I read the entire thing in about a week -- very rare for a tech book to be this well written and interesting.

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Summary: Great and interesting read.
Review: This book was full of useful information and was exactly what I wanted. I'm a .NET programmer and I wanted to find out how to write .NET code with C++. This book was hard to put down and I read the entire thing in about a week -- very rare for a tech book to be this well written and interesting.