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 to implement exception handling mechanism in C++.
Look at what can be done with mapping in a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app.
With a UWP app, you can design for specific input modes and devices. Learn to control a camera from one.
Take advantage of pattern matching to check for patterns in your code, improve performance, and simplify your code.
