Teach yourself the latest version of Visual C++ and begin developing for Microsoft .NET one step at a time. This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly guides you through the fundamentals from writing managed code to running and debugging your first .NET-based applications and XML Web services. Work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises to learn essential techniques. And accelerate your productivity by working with instructive code and best practices for .NET development with Visual C++. Discover how to: Write and run a simple object-oriented program Delve deeper with inheritance and other OOP techniques Execute code with the Visual Studio(r) .NET debugger Exploit built-in .NET support for properties, arrays, and events Generate and handle exceptions Implement operator overloading Examine the .NET Framework 1.1, exploring major namespaces and classes Use Windows(r) Forms to create GUI applications Access data using XML and Microsoft ADO.NET Create and use Web services Build Web service components with ATL Make legacy applications .N ET-ready CD Inside Includes sample code, practice exercises, and eBook CD features: Code examples in Visual C++ .NET 2003 All the book s practice files Fully searchable eBook