After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• create Managed C++ projects that use the .NET Framework. This includes:
• Creating native and Managed C++ applications.
• Writing code to use managed types in a C++ application.
• Creating, building, and testing C++ projects for the .NET Framework.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• define and use __gc classes. This includes:
• Defining __gc classes, and creating and destroying objects of these classes.
• Defining data members, member functions, constructors, and destructors in a __gc class.
• Controlling the layout of classes and unions.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• define and use pointers to __gc and __nogc objects. This includes:
• Defining and using pointers and references to __gc and __nogc objects.
• inning a pointer to a fixed location, to prevent an object from being relocated by the runtime system.
• Defining delegates to represent member functions in a class
• Using delegates to specify callback functions for events.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• create and use value types. This includes:
• Defining and using a value type.
• erforming boxing and unboxing operations on a value type, so that it can be used where a managed object is required.
• Defining and using value enums

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• define __gc base classes, derived classes, and interfaces in C++. This includes:
• Defining base classes and derived classes that use the Managed Extensions for C++.
• Defining and implementing interfaces.
• Defining Managed C++ base classes and derived classes that integrate with classes written in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#???.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• create arrays and collections of objects, and use reflection to obtain run time information about objects. This includes:
• Creating, initializing, using, and destroying __gc arrays.
• Using the .NET Framework collection class library to organize objects.
• Using reflection to identify the type, data members, and member functions of an object at run time.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• define and use properties, managed operator functions, and exceptions. This includes:
• Defining properties in a __gc class.
• Defining named operator functions in a __gc class.
• Using exception handling techniques to deal with error conditions in a Managed C++ application.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• call unmanaged code from managed code, and wrap an unmanaged class in a managed class. This includes:
• Invoking native APIs directly in managed code, using a direct function call or using P/Invoke.
• Defining a __gc C++ class to wrap an unmanaged C++ class, to expose the unmanaged class to the .NET Framework.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• use COM objects in managed code, and export managed classes to COM. This includes:
• Converting the type definitions in a COM type library into a .NET Framework interop assembly.
• Creating and using instances of imported COM objects within a Managed C++ application.
• Using the Type Library Exporter tool to convert managed types into a COM type library.