Language-Specific Implementations

This part of the chapter examines how some of these problems can happen in normal use in the common languages within a Win32 environment. This part of the chapter also explains how these problems can be fixed.

Visual C++

Visual C++ is one of the core languages on the Visual Studio Suite. C++ is a good general programming language. It is an extension of the C programming language, which Visual C++ can also compile.

You will find C and C++ at the core of many applications. With the recent explosion of COM-based programming, you can write core COM objects in C or C++ and use them with your Visual Basic programs or any other COM-enabled language. This gives you a lot of flexibility to write your core as a highly ...

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