Tutorials or Books for C++/CLI with Forms and Controls?

[jalway]

Hello everybody!

Where can I find a good tutorial on C++ with .Net for setting up forms and controls? You know, dragging and dropping and hooking up the various components on forms, and laying out different form configurations, such as split windows. I’m especially interested in the Tree control here.

I know C++ quite well, and have used it with Visual Studio for 8 years or so. I had been using MFC. I’m using VS 2005. Now I’m trying to migrate into .Net, and have had a hard time finding a good tutorial -- or up to date book -- on .Net and C++, which surprises me, because I thought .Net was supposed to be a big deal and that MFC was “passé”.

I have read over several tutorials on C++/CLI, but I’m interested in the “Visual” part at this time.

Thanks for any help!

...John

[jalway]

I found a great MS website which provides video tutorials on .Net controls and forms. .Net is MUCH easier and more powerful than MFC for laying out visual interfaces for applications. I personally love this, because it's so much faster to slap together an interface and I can focus more on what's under the hood in my applications.

There are something like a hundred video tutorials for various controls, and the website has much more than video tutorials.

Here is the link:
http://windowsclient.net/learn/videos.aspx