C++ for VB Programmers [With Start Up CD-ROM] (Paperback)

1 Why C++? (And Why with Visual Basic).- 2 Where Do We Start?.- 3 How Do You Do That Voodoo That You Do?.- 4 C++ 101.- 5 It’s Not Polite to Point.- 6 Classes.- 7 Templates.- 8 Putting It All Together.- 9 What’s the DLL, Man?.- 10 Your First Real DLL.- 11 An ATL Primer.- 12 The COM Project.- 13 Advanced Topics.- Appendix A A Thread to Visual Basic.- Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Always Mean that You Should.- A Quick Review of Multithreading.- The Threading Contract.- The CreateThread API.- The CreateThread API Revisited.- Conclusion.- Appendix B Visual Basic Strings: The BSTR Data Type.- What Is a BSTR?.- Using_bstr_t.- Conclusion.- Appendix C Article 3. Strings the OLE Way.- Unicode Versus ANSI.- What Is a BSTR?.- The String Class.