Enterprise application development with visual C++ 2005

Enterprise Application Development with Visual C++ 2005 teaches developers how to create practical business applications using managed C++ and Visual Studio® 2005. It offers best practices for coding and C++ development, including class programming, code factoring, source control, memory management, and interdependency and interoperability. Special attention is also given to new features in Visual C++ 2005, such as IDE enhancements, compiler features, ECMA syntax for managed C++, and C++ language extensions. Database application development, XML Web Service integration, and MSI deployment tools integrated in Visual Studio 2005 are also covered in detail. Throughout the book a wide variety of practical examples are used to illustrate features of the language. In addition, users learn how to create an enterprise application installation package from the ground up, which performs a full range of deployment tasks ranging from creating SQL Server database to registering and configuring both managed and unmanaged Windows and XML Web Services. After reading this detailed resource, developers and programmers will have all the skills needed to create enterprise-quality applications.

Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
1 The Age of .NET: A .NET Framework Overview	p. 1
Farewell to Win32: A Historical Note	p. 2
From Native Code to Managed Execution	p. 3
Common Language Specification and Language Interoperability	p. 5
Non CLS-Compliant Features of Programming Languages	p. 8
From API to Class Library	p. 9
Code Access Security	p. 17
What's New in the .NET Framework 2.0	p. 18
Conclusion	p. 19
2 What's New in Visual C++ .NET 2005	p. 21
Code Definition View	p. 22
Call Browser Window	p. 23
Important Changes in C++ Compiler and Language	p. 24
Important New C++ Compiler and Linker Features and Changes	p. 28
Enforcing Good Coding Practices with Code Analysis	p. 38
Conclusion	p. 42
3 ECMA-Standardized C++ Syntax for CLR Support	p. 43
Farewell to Managed Extensions	p. 44
Reference Classes	p. 46
Enumerations	p. 60
Interfaces	p. 61
Properties	p. 62
Value Classes	p. 66
Tracking Reference	p. 69
Delegates	p. 71
Events	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 80
4 Managed Operators	p. 81
Managed Operator Rules	p. 81
Conversion Operators	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 94
5 Managed Arrays	p. 95
Native Arrays versus Managed Arrays	p. 95
Declaring Managed Arrays	p. 96
System::Array Class	p. 102
System::Collections::ArrayList Class	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 107
6 Managed Pointers	p. 109
Interior Pointers	p. 110
Pinning Pointers	p. 114
Managed Classes as Members of Native Classes	p. 117
Managed Type Casting	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 124
7 Using Generics	p. 125
Generics	p. 125
Generic Classes	p. 128
Constraints on Generics	p. 130
Generic Functions and Methods	p. 131
Generic Interfaces	p. 132
Delegates to Generic Methods and Generic Delegates	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 136
8 Project and Source Code Organization	p. 137
Importance of Coding Discipline	p. 137
Software Project Structure Levels	p. 141
Project Structure	p. 142
Program Structure	p. 151
Source File Structure	p. 156
Code Formatting	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 171
9 C++ Coding Standard and Best Practices	p. 173
Coding Standard for C++	p. 174
General Rules	p. 175
Naming Conventions	p. 180
Memory Allocation Rules	p. 185
Stack Allocation	p. 192
Variable Usage and Initialization Rules	p. 196
Function Design and Usage Rules	p. 203
Miscellaneous Rules	p. 209
Flow Control and Branching Rules	p. 210
Constant Usage Rules	p. 212
General Coding Issues	p. 217
Compiler Settings	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 220
10 Analyzing Specification and Designing Classes	p. 225
Designing Classes: General Considerations	p. 226
Abstracting from Specification	p. 226
Designing Classes	p. 230
General Class Coding Rules	p. 235
Conclusion	p. 242
11 Working with Databases	p. 245
Visual Database Tools	p. 246
SQL Server Express and SQL Server Management Studio	p. 253
Database Diagrams	p. 255
Constraints	p. 260
Indexes	p. 261
Triggers	p. 262
Data Design Rules	p. 263
Conclusion	p. 270
12 ADO.NET: Working with Datasets	p. 271
ADO.NET Architecture	p. 272
Differences between ADO and ADO.NET	p. 273
ADO.NET Namespaces	p. 274
System::Data Namespace	p. 275
DataSet Class	p. 279
DataTable Class	p. 282
Data Table Collections	p. 286
DataColumn Class	p. 287
Data Column Collections	p. 288
Creating Tables, Adding Columns, and Specifying Primary Keys	p. 289
Using Aggregate Expressions	p. 290
DataRow Class	p. 291
Data Row Collections	p. 294
Adding, Navigating Rows, Computing Aggregate Expressions	p. 294
Establishing Relations between Data Tables	p. 296
Data Relation Collections	p. 298
Constraints	p. 299
Constraint Rules	p. 301
Unique Contraints	p. 302
Constraint Collections	p. 303
Creating Unique and Foreign-Key Constraints	p. 303
Data Table Notifications	p. 305
Adding, Deleting Rows, and Handling Data Table Notifications	p. 307
Conclusion	p. 311
13 ADO.NET: Reading and Writing Datasets as XML	p. 313
Reading and Writing Datasets as XML Documents	p. 314
Writing Dataset Data and Schema to XML	p. 314
Reading Dataset Data and Schema from XML	p. 317
Communicating Dataset Changes by Means of XML DiffGrams	p. 321
Navigating Hierarchal Datasets	p. 323
Conclusion	p. 326
14 ADO.NET: Typed Datasets and Views	p. 327
Strictly-Typed Datasets	p. 328
Data Views	p. 338
Data View Settings	p. 343
Conclusion	p. 345
15 ADO.NET: OLE DB and SQL Server Data Providers Basics	p. 347
ADO.NET Data Providers	p. 347
Database Connections	p. 353
Data Adapters	p. 361
RowUpdating and RowUpdated Events	p. 369
Table Mappings	p. 371
Data Column Mappings	p. 373
Setting Up Column and Table Mappings	p. 374
Conclusion	p. 376
16 ADO.NET: OLE DB and SQL Server Data Provider Commands, Data Readers, and Notifications	p. 377
Database Commands	p. 377
Executing SQL Server Commands Asynchronously	p. 383
Database Command Parameters	p. 385
Invoking SQL-Server Stored Procedures	p. 390
Database Command Builders	p. 391
Data Readers	p. 395
Using Data Readers with Sequential Access to Read BLOB Data	p. 401
Database Transactions	p. 403
Direct Loading Datasets with Data	p. 407
Subscribing to SQL Server Query Notifications	p. 408
Conclusion	p. 414
17 ASP.NET Web Services	p. 415
Web Services as Components of Distributed Computing	p. 416
Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Web Services	p. 416
The Future of Web Services	p. 419
Web Services versus Software Libraries	p. 420
Main Reasons for Using Web Services	p. 420
ASP.NET Web Services	p. 421
System: :Web Namespace	p. 423
HttpApplication Class	p. 425
HttpServerUtility Class	p. 426
HttpApplicationState Class	p. 427
WebService Attribute	p. 430
WebMethod Attribute	p. 430
C++ .NET Web Service Application Template	p. 432
Debugging Web Services Locally and Remotely	p. 434
Conclusion	p. 439
18 Consuming and Communicating with Web Services via HTTP-GET, HTTP-POST, and SOAP	p. 441
Web Service Proxies	p. 442
System: :Web: :Services: :Protocols Namespace	p. 443
HTTP-GET and HTTP-POST Protocols	p. 445
.NET Framework Web Service Protocol/Proxy Classes	p. 446
Generating Web Service Proxies by Adding Web References	p. 448
Invoking Web Service Methods Synchronously and Asynchronously	p. 450
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)	p. 453
SOAP Binding to HTTP	p. 454
SOAP Message Architecture	p. 455
Formatting and Encoding SOAP Messages and Parameters	p. 466
Web Services with Multiple Bindings	p. 469
Managing Application and Session State	p. 472
Conclusion	p. 473
19 Web Services Definition language (WSDL), Discovery, Security and Configuration	p. 475
Web Service Description Language	p. 476
System: :Web: :Services: :Description Namespace	p. 478
Web Service Discovery	p. 481
UDDI	p. 486
Web Service Configuration	p. 487
Web Service Authentication	p. 490
Securing a Web Service	p. 492
Conclusion	p. 494
20 ATL Server Web Services and Interoperability with ASP.NET	p. 495
Creating ATL Web Services	p. 496
Adding MFC Support to ATL Server Projects	p. 498
Specifying ATL Server Web Service Declaration	p. 500
Declaring SOAP Headers	p. 503
Handling SOAP Faults	p. 503
Maintaining Session State	p. 508
Streamlining Web Method Invocation: Prolog and Epilog Macros	p. 509
Consuming ATL Web Services in .NET Clients	p. 510
Marshalling Date Data Types	p. 510
Conclusion	p. 514
21 Web Services Interoperability with Legacy VB6 Clients	p. 515
SOAP Toolkit	p. 516
Consuming Web Service in VB6	p. 517
SOAP Type Mapping	p. 519
WSML Files	p. 524
Session State with SOAP Headers	p. 525
Conclusion	p. 527
22 ATL Server and ASP.NET Web Services Interoperability with Java	p. 529
Creating Web Service Proxy	p. 530
Problems	p. 531
Implementing Web Method Call Template	p. 531
Type Mapping and User-Defined Types	p. 534
Handling Null Return Values and Zero-Size Arrays	p. 539
Treating Output Parameters	p. 540
Conclusion	p. 541
23 Interoperability between Managed and Unmanaged Code	p. 543
Component-Level Interoperability between Managed and Unmanaged Code	p. 544
Runtime Callable Wrappers and COM Callable Wrappers	p. 544
Marshalling Data	p. 546
Marshalling Exceptions	p. 547
Marshalling Events	p. 548
Class Interfaces	p. 548
Generating Runtime Callable Wrappers	p. 549
Consuming COM Classes and Events in Managed Code	p. 552
Generating Runtime Callable Wrappers	p. 556
Registering Runtime Callable Wrappers	p. 557
Consuming Managed Classes and Events in Unmanaged Code	p. 557
Deploying Interoperability Applications	p. 561
Consuming Unmanaged DLLs in Managed Code	p. 561
COM Interoperability Attributes	p. 565
Code-Level Interoperability: C++ Interop	p. 566
Conclusion	p. 572
24 Deploying Applications	p. 573
Windows Installer Overview	p. 574
Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects	p. 575
Conclusion	p. 591
25 Custom Deployment Actions	p. 593
Custom Actions Overview	p. 593
Hooking Up Custom Actions to Deployment Package	p. 595
Custom Action Data	p. 598
Sample Deployment Project	p. 599
Implementing Native Custom Action	p. 600
Implementing Installer-Class Custom Action	p. 605
Installing Managed Windows Services	p. 613
Installing and Controlling Services via MSI	p. 615
Conclusion	p. 616
26 Source Control	p. 617
Source Control Overview	p. 618
Practicing Source Control with Visual SourceSafe	p. 619
Conclusion	p. 631
Appendix A About the CD-ROM	p. 633
Index	p. 639

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