I’m sick but I can still watch videos from Channel 9 :).
If you need a general overview of C++ 2005 and its relation to
CLR then I recommend this
video with
Brandon Bray.
It looks like C++ 2005 is big improvement in terms of usability since C++ 2003.
I was using managed C++ 2003 about two years ago and it was nightmare. In one solution I had C, C++, managed C++ and C# code. Even if it compiled it very often threw strange exceptions during runtime because of mixed nature of almost all my assemblies.
A few things Brandon mentioned:
- for each statement in C++(for .NET and STL collections)
- difference between generics and templates
- why C++ managed compiler can produce best MSIL ever
Of course I’ve added his blog to my list.