I have Visual Studio .NET and I was fooling around with Microsoft's Managed Extensions. They let you write garbage collected objects in C++, and it is presented as a fundamentally new paradigm.

The first word that came to mind when I heard about introducing Garbage Collection techniques into a C or C++ program was “nonsense”. As with any other decent C programmer who loves this language, the ...

Apparently, it's not possible to create a collection with an abstract type in STL. How do I go around the problem of creating a collection with a base abstract type and using that collection with a ...