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

Implementing .NET Framework Interfaces

For this exercise, you're going to add on to last hour's project and create your own collection class. In case you don't have the project anymore, you can create a new project. Click New, Project from the File menu within the IDE. Select Visual C++ Project from the list of project types and select Managed C++ Application from the list of templates. Give your project the name CollectionTest and click OK to create the project.

The collection you will create is simply a specialized derivation of the stack collection that only accepts strings rather than any System::Object-based objects. To begin, create a new managed C++ class. The easiest way to do this is to select Project, Add Class from the main menu. Select ...