... ■ CHAPTER 3 Building C++/ CLI Programs for the .NET Developer Platform with Visual C++ T his chapter is a necessary distraction from your main purpose, which is to learn about the C++/ CLI language. ... important information that is not specifi- cally related to the language syntax, but to the platform, compiler, and development tools. There’s a great deal to the .NET Developer Platform (NDP); ... implementation of the CLI, in this chapter I assume you are using Visual C++, the Microsoft implementation of the CLI, and your programs will run on the .NET Developer Platform. This chapter...