What's C++.NET guys?

HelloWorld · #1 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 12:39 AM

Anybody have heard of this too before? I just talked with my friend that's a graduate student from the University that I go to. He told me that they're different, and the competition that we're going to go is going to force us to use C++.NET if we decide to use C++

Lee · #2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 04:35 AM

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Originally Posted by HelloWorld

Anybody have heard of this too before? I just talked with my friend that's a graduate student from the University that I go to. He told me that they're different, and the competition that we're going to go is going to force us to use C++.NET if we decide to use C++

I have heard of this before, i don't know much but i think its a like VB.NET where you get a visual form to put your controls on but it uses C++ as the base language and other library's such as the win32 library

To me it comes across as an easy way to code a C++ windowed application. (To code it you use microsoft Visual C++ the .NET bit tells you that its using the .NET framework if you didn't know).

rpgfan3233 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 04:19 PM

The simplest explanation (even if somewhat inaccurate at times) is that C++.NET simply adds the ability to use .NET code in C++ apps. Of course, since you use .NET code (even if you don't want to, it still translates to .NET), the .NET Framework is required. For example, what you use in C# (e.g. System.Console.WriteLine) should be able to be used in C++.NET in a C++ syntax -

Code:

using namespace System; //System namespace
int main () {
    Console::WriteLine("Hello World!");
    return 0;
}

rather than -

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
    cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

HelloWorld · #4 (**permalink**) 07-21-2007, 04:22 PM

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The simplest explanation (even if somewhat inaccurate at times) is that C++.NET simply adds the ability to use .NET code in C++ apps

what kind of ability you're talking about? What's the advantages and disadvantages of .NET if there's any compared to the regular one?

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