C++ continues to get better over the years because people just keep contributing to it and finding new ways to work with it. You can find C++ in an amazing array of applications because it works everywhere — from desktop and mobile applications to embedded applications and other types of systems.Because C++ is so incredibly flexible, people keep coming to it as a best solution for many general programming needs and some specific needs as well.

Every time you start a new application, you create one or more processes. A process is simply executable code that is loaded into memory. The CPU reads and executes the instructions to perform the tasks you ask the application to do. When the CPU loads your application into memory, it assigns each process the application creates a Process IDentifier (PID), which is pronounced pid (think of lid with a p instead of an l).

Creating a library project in C++ is only a little different than creating a console application. The following steps describe how to create a library project:Choose File→New→Project.You see the New From Template dialog box shown. Highlight the Static Library icon on the Projects tab, then click Go.You see the Welcome page of the Static Library wizard.

The static library starts with a standard C file. To make this library work well with templates, you need to delete the C file, add a C++ file, and add a header file. The following steps describe how to perform this process:Right-click main.c in the Projects tab of the Management window and choose Remove File From Project from the context menu that appears.

Most of the Boost library works just fine by adding headers to your application code. However, a few components, such as RegEx, require a library. Before you can use a library, you must build it. After you build the library, you must add it to your application.There are two techniques for adding the required headers and libraries to an application.

The C++ programming language consists of a vocabulary of commands that humans can understand and that can be converted into machine language fairly easily and a language structure (or grammar) that allows humans to combine these C++ commands into a program that actually does something (well, maybe does something) The vocabulary is often known as the semantics, while the grammar is the syntax.

C++ variables are stored internally as so-called binary numbers. Binary numbers are stored as a sequence of 1 and 0 values known as bits. Most of the time, you don't really need to deal with numbers at the bit level; however, there are occasions when doing so is convenient. C++ provides a set of operators for this purpose.