Professional C++

1106 Pages·2011·98.141 MB·English

by  Marc Gregoire, Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper

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Professional C++, Second Edition
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Dedicated to my parents, who are always there for me.
—Marc Gregoire
To Sonja, for her unconditional love and support; and
to my son Kai, whose frequent interruptions reminded
me what’s important in life.
—Nicholas A. Solter
To Fletch, whose unpredictable cuteness reminds me
of someone . . .
—Scott J. Kleper
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CREDITS
EXECUTIVE EDITOR VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER
Robert Elliott Neil Edde
SENIOR PROJECT EDITOR ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Adaobi Obi Tulton Jim Minatel
TECHNICAL EDITOR PROJECT COORDINATOR, COVER
Joseph M. Newcomer Katie Crocker
PRODUCTION EDITOR PROOFREADER
Kathleen Wisor Nancy Carrasco
COPY EDITOR INDEXER
Mike La Bonne Johnna VanHoose Dinse
EDITORIAL MANAGER COVER DESIGNER
Mary Beth Wakefi eld Ryan Sneed
FREELANCER EDITORIAL MANAGER COVER IMAGE
Rosemarie Graham © slobo
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING VERTICAL WEBSITES PROJECT MANAGER
David Mayhew Laura Moss-Hollister
MARKETING MANAGER VERTICAL WEBSITES ASSISTANT
Ashley Zurcher PROJECT MANAGER
Jenny Swisher
BUSINESS MANAGER
Amy Knies VERTICAL WEBSITES ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Josh Frank
PRODUCTION MANAGER Shawn Patrick
Tim Tate Doug Kuhn
Marilyn Hummel
VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE
GROUP PUBLISHER
Richard Swadley
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MARC GREGOIRE is a software engineer from Belgium. He graduated from the Catholic
University of Leuven, Belgium, with a degree in “Burgerlijk ingenieur in de computer
wetenschappen” (equivalent to a master of science in engineering in computer science).
The year after, he received the cum laude degree of master in artifi cial intelligence
at the same university. After his studies, Marc started working for a big software
consultancy company called Ordina Belgium. As a consultant, he worked for Siemens
and Nokia Siemens Networks on critical 2G and 3G software running on Solaris for
big telecom operators. This required working in international teams stretching from South America
and USA to EMEA and Asia. Now, Marc is working for Nikon Metrology on 3D scanning software.
His main expertise is C/C++, and specifi cally Microsoft VC++ and the MFC framework. Next to
C/C++, Marc also likes C# and uses PHP for creating web pages. In addition to his main interest for
Windows development, he also has experience in developing C++ programs running 24x7 on Linux
platforms; for example, EIB home automation controlling and monitoring software. Since April
2007, he received the yearly Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for his Visual C++
expertise. Marc is an active member on the CodeGuru forum (as Marc G) and wrote some articles
and FAQ entries for CodeGuru. He also creates freeware and shareware programs that are distributed
through his website at www.nuonsoft.com, and maintains a blog on www.nuonsoft.com/blog/.
NICHOLAS A. SOLTER is a computer programmer with experience developing a range
of software including systems software, games, web services, and more. His work on
high availability clusters at Sun Microsystems led to three patents and a publication
at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. Also at Sun, he
enjoyed the opportunity to be involved in OpenSolaris, and was the lead author of the
OpenSolaris Bible (Wiley, 2009). Now back in the world of web development, Nick is thrilled to
be working with Scott again at Context Optional.
Nick studied computer science at Stanford University, where he earned bachelor and master of
science degrees, with a concentration in systems. In addition to his industry experience, he taught
C++ for one year at Fullerton Community College.
Nick lives with his wife and two children in beautiful Colorado, where he enjoys playing in the
snow (having been deprived of winters growing up in southern California).
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SCOTT J. KLEPER began his programming career in elementary school, writing
adventure games in BASIC for the Tandy TRS-80. As the resident Mac geek at his
high school, Scott moved to higher-level languages and released several award-
winning shareware applications.
Scott attended Stanford University, where he earned bachelor and master of science
degrees in computer science, with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. While in
college, Scott served as a teaching assistant for classes involving introductory programming, object-
oriented design, data structures, GUI frameworks, group projects, and Internet programming. He
later adapted “Professional C++” for a course at Stanford.
Since graduating, Scott has served as a lead engineer on the founding teams of several companies. In
2006, Scott co-founded Context Optional, Inc., a leading provider of Social Marketing technology.
Outside of work, Scott is a compulsive online shopper, an avid reader, and an awful guitarist.
ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
JOSEPH M. NEWCOMER received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU). Since then, he has been faculty at CMU, done a high-tech compiler startup, been one of
the founding scientists at the Software Engineering Institute at CMU, and been an independent
software developer. He has been a Microsoft MVP in the C/C++/MFC area for 16 years. He is
co-author of two books on Microsoft Windows programming, Win32 Programming (with Brent
Rector, Addison-Wesley, 1997) and Developing Windows NT Device Drivers (with Ed Dekker,
Addison-Wesley, 1999). He is one of the pioneers in desktop publishing and publish-from-database
technolgy, in the early 1970s.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I THANK THE JOHN WILEY & SONS and Wrox Press editorial and production teams for their support.
Especially, thank you to Robert Elliott, executive editor at Wiley, for giving me a chance to write
this book, and Adaobi Obi Tulton, senior project editor at Wiley, for managing this project.
I also thank the authors of the fi rst edition, Nicholas A. Solter and Scott J. Kleper, for doing such a
great job on which I could base this second edition.
A very special thank you to my technical editor, Joseph M. Newcomer, for his meticulous technical
review. His many constructive comments and ideas have certainly made this book better.
Also, a big thank you to Ordina Belgium (www.ordina.be), the company for which I was working
while writing this book, for the generous support they provided me.
Of course, the support and patience of my girlfriend, Zulija N., and my nearest family, my parents
and my brother, were very important in fi nishing this book.
Finally, I thank you, as readers, for trying this approach to professional C++ software development.
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