Mixing Native and Managed C++
While I haven't written any C++ for more than half dozen years, there are times I miss it. Last week reminded me of that -- I was at our semi-annual author's retreat and got to meet Marcus Heege. DevelopMentor is lucky to have some the best C++ folks like Scott Meyers and Marcus in our fold. I got to listen to Marcus talk a bit some of the very interesting things Microsoft has done with the C++ stack for Visual Studio 2005 that allows for the blending of native and managed C++ code. Marcus regularly teaches our Essential C++/CLI course, of course, but he's also got a nice web tutorial on the topic now available from the MSDN C++ Dev Center. Definitely worth a look if you're interested in leveraging .NET but can't give up the power and performance of native C++ code.