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
Learn more about a few commonly used components and explore their utility and usages.
Become proficient with using type definitions in C#.
Learn about the various forms of encryption in Visual Basic and the differences among them.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are where you have to be. It's not a matter of if as much as a matter of which.
