Thread: newbie : a little confused ?

hi !

I am currently reading the book "Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Step by Step - Version 2003 Julian Templeman and Andy " and the guy has used visual studio 2003 for all his excercies......

I am using Visual studio 2005 and the confusing part is that all the managed types he explains in visual studio 2003 fail in visual studio 2005 ..... the options are not the same also .....

for eg. he talks about giving prefixes to classes like _gcl or _value which decide the how the garbage collection will take place by the .NET framework ...... I tried that in Visual studio 2005 and it tells me that its old code.....

the guy tells to start a console appication but uses weired form here is a sample program :

Code:

// This is the main project file for VC++ application project 
// generated using an Application Wizard.

#include "stdafx.h"

#using <mscorlib.dll>

using namespace System;

// The Point structure definition
__value struct Point
{
public:
	Point() { x = 0; y = 0; }
	Point(int xVal, int yVal) { x = xVal; y = yVal; }

	int x, y;
};

int _tmain()
{
	// Create a Point
	Point p1;  // use the default constructor
	Point p2(10,20);   // use the second constructor to set x 
						// to 10 and y to 20

	// Initialize its members
	p1.x = 10;
	p1.y = 20;

	Console::Write(S"p1.x is ");
	Console::WriteLine(p1.x);

	return 0;
}

I get serious errors if I follow the managed C++ style .... what am I doing wrong or is this guy gone cuckoo ...... please help

Much of MSVC++ 2003.net is much to do with the framework. I also own 2003 although I do not use it much. The code you posted does indeed look odd, why does main look like
int _tmain()? Never seen that before!

Only advise I can give is to stick with a more updated book, or press F1 when you highlight an error message in the compiler note box. That will tell you what the error means in a better lingo

Thing is, where MSVC++2005 is more updated, some of the syntax that works with 2003 will be regarded as decepricated or "old". Microsoft update their software regually.
Stick with the book if you want, but I would get a book that is less confusing, and main reads int main(), as you know it is more or less up to date - others might give you a better reply, hope I was of use to you..-pete

so would working on Visual C++ .net 2003 solve my problem ...... because I can ask the lab guy to install the previous software ........ would this code work there ?