Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++.NET in 24 Hours

Hour 3. Writing a Simple C++ .NET Program

Inevitably every programming book and programming course has you create as your first application a simple "Hello World" program. Therefore, this hour's lesson is dedicated to writing your first simple application with Visual C++ .NET.

The difference is, this lesson already assumes you know how to create a simple application and are at least somewhat experienced with the previous version of Visual C++. With that assumption, the lesson will take you through creating two applications: one with MFC and one using the .NET Framework. This allows you to compare the two methods of programming Windows applications with Visual C++ .NET.

In this hour you will learn:

• How to build a simple application with MFC

• How to build a managed application with the .NET Framework

• How to study and understand the differences between the two types of applications