This developer's guide provides a resource for the professional developer seeking to create complex, robust and high performance applications with visual C++.Net. It covers how to build multiple applications for the Web and the desktop through extensive coverage on ADO, ADO+, threads, active directory, attributed programming, security, debugging, graphic animation and streaming video. It explains visual C++.NET's relationship to the .NET framework and how to utilize Visual C++.NET's debugging capability. Readers can learn programming techniques to integrate graphic animation and streaming video into a site and how to make applications PDA-compatible and understand and design a secure application. The CD contains all of the book's source code.