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[Dan Irwin]

i just bought a book on c++.net and read about half through the book,
there are two things that i dont understand:

1.when did we start useing "int _tmain" instead of "int main"?
2. what is console::WriteLine and why do books and tuorials use it if
msdn says it cant make a sample of house to use it for c++?

[Phlip]

Dan Irwin wrote:

i just bought a book on c++.net and read about half through the book,
there are two things that i dont understand:
Further questions will work best on a .net newsgroup; this one tries to
discuss platform-neutral C++.
1.when did we start useing "int _tmain" instead of "int main"?
When we started writing Typed code that could re-compile for "unicode"
easily.

Things containing T, such as TCHAR or STRTCHR, typically toggle by a UNICODE
macro. If that's on, they front wchar_t (which is standard). If that's off,
they front char (which is standard and more familiar).

The 16-bit wchar_t characters can store wide code pages, such as UTF-16,
which some folks causally refer to as "Unicode".

Be fooled by imitations. 'char' type can store UTF-8, which is just as
global.

But never increment a character pointer, such as pc++, and expect it to
point to the "beginning" of a complete character if your string could
contain multi-byte characters.
2. what is console::WriteLine and why do books and tuorials use it if
msdn says it cant make a sample of house to use it for c++?

Sample of house?

That is probably some kind of character-mode function, such as "ncurses" for
the GNU/Un*x/VT technologies.

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