What book should I read to learn about writing server (sockets, TCP) programs in C++/CLI?

Question

I recently finished this book on Managed C++, and found it very interesting... But I realize the topic is woefully out-of-date now, with the advent of C++/CLI.

So I'm looking for recommendations on a new book to read, something to update my knowledge of C++ and .NET. I'm especially interested in writing server applications (using sockets and TCP).

Answer 1

Probably not. You will find books on Berkely Sockets using C, .NET Sockets using C# or VB.NET, and other socket libraries such as Apache Portable Runtime using C, Qt using C++, boost using C++, etc. However, it shouldn't be hard to translate .NET sockets from C# into C++/CLI, especially because MSDN has C++/CLI versions of all examples.

e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.tcplistener.aspx

So get a book on socket programming in C# and use it to learn what the classes are and how they behave, they look up those classes on MSDN to see C++/CLI examples.

Answer 2

It is not recommended to use C++/CLI for such kind of application.

Answer 3

@Ben Voigt:

Boris Jabes from Visual C++ Team Blog wrote:

"While the lack of Intellisense for C++/CLI is unfortunate, we expect that it only represents a small portion of your source code that you don't need to edit nearly as often as the native code. Indeed, the only scenario we don't recommend is to use C++/CLI as a first-class .NET language. Instead, we think it's the ideal solution for interop."