Correctly managing the release of heap-allocated memory and other resources has been one of the great challenges of C and C++ development for decades. The new shared_ptr class, shipping with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio 2010, makes dealing with resource management dramatically simpler.
Learn the reason behind using pointer-to-pointer and reference-to-pointer to modify a pointer passed to a function, to understand their usage better.
A beginning-level article covering the problems, bugs, and technique solutions that correspond to using pointers.
This article shows an implementation of delegates.
Smart Pointer (with Object Level Thread Synchronization '& Reference Counting Garbage Collection)
AutoPtr<> Class
Quirky and yet persistent, C++ is a language that keeps programmers coming back to it. Pick up some new ways to wrangle it into your workflow.
HTTP isn't the only network protocol that's useful. Learn about, or beef up your skills with, socket-level programming.
Learn about the functions, and see a small example of how the particular functions can be used.
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