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Books that pertain to the STLSoft libraries Matthew Wilson has published two books that pertain to the STLSoft libraries:

There are also two more books in preparation:

Imperfect C++

Imperfect C++ was published by Addison-Wesley in October 2004. It has attracted many favourable (and two unfavourable) reviews.

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The material pertaining to STLSoft is as follows:

Part 1 - Fundamentals:

Chapter 1 - Enforcing Design: Constraints, Contracts and Assertions
Chapter 5 - Object Access Models: stlsoft::lock_traits, stlsoft::lock_scope, winstl::thread_mutex

Part 2 - Surviving the Real World:

Part 1 - Language Concerns:

Chapter 13 - Fundamental Types: STLSOFT_NUM_ELEMENTS(), stlsoft::array_proxy
Chapter 14 - Arrays and Pointers: NULL
Chapter 16 - Keywords: stlsoft::explicit_cast
Chapter 18 - Typedefs: stlsoft::true_typedef

Part 1 - Cognizant Conversions:

Part 1 - Operators:

chapter 24 - operator bool(): stlsoft::operator_bool_generator
Chapter 25 - Fast, Non-intrusive String Concatenation: stlsoft::fast_string_concatenator
Chapter 28 - : stlsoft::unused_return_value_monitor
Chapter 29 - : stlsoft::sinteger64

Part 1 - Extending C++:

Chapter 31 - : stlsoft::integer_to_string(),
Chapter 32 - Memory: stlsoft::auto_buffer, stlsoft::pod_vector
Chapter 33 - Multidimensional Arrays: stlsoft::fixed_array_1d, stlsoft::fixed_array_2d, stlsoft::fixed_array_3d, stlsoft::fixed_array_4d
Chapter 34 - Ranges: Ranges
Chapter 35 - Properties: group__library__properties "Properties"

Extended STL, volume 1 will be published by Addison-Wesley in June 2007.

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The material pertaining to STLSoft is as follows:

Part 1 - Foundations:

Chapter 12 - Template Tools: stlsoft::allocator_selector, stlsoft::true_typedef, stlsoft::
Chapter 16 - Essential Components: stlsoft::auto_buffer, unixstl::filesystem_traits and winstl::filesystem_traits, stlsoft::scoped_handle, dl_call

Part 2 - Collections:

Chapter 17 - Adapting The glob API: unixstl::glob_sequence
Chapter 19 - Adapting the opendir/readdir API: unixstl::readdir_sequence
Chapter 20 - Adapting the FindFirstFile/FindNextFile API: winstl::basic_findfile_sequence
Chapter 21 - Intermezzo: When the Efficiency/Usability Balance is Tipped: Enumerating FTP Server Directories: inetstl::basic_findfile_sequence and inetstl::basic_ftpdir_sequence
Chapter 22 - Enumerating Processes and Modules: winstl::pid_sequence and winstl::process_module_sequence
Chapter 24 - Adapting MFC's CArray Container Family: mfcstl::carray_cadaptor and mfcstl::carray_iadaptor
Chapter 25 - A Map Of The Environment: platformstl::environment_map
Chapter 26 - Travelling Back and Forth on the Z-Plane: winstl::child_window_sequence and winstl::peer_window_sequence
Chapter 27 - String Tokenisation: the venerable, but inordinately efficient, stlsoft::string_tokeniser
Chapter 28 - Adapting COM Enumerators: comstl::enumerator_sequence
Chapter 30 - Adapting COM Collections: comstl::collection_sequence
Chapter 31 - Gathering Scattered I/O: acestl::message_queue_sequence

Part 3 - Iterators:

Chapter 34 - An Enhanced ostream_iterator: stlsoft::ostream_iterator
Chapter 36 - Transform Iterator: stlsoft::transform_iterator
Chapter 38 - Member Selector Iterator: stlsoft::member_selector_iterator
Chapter 39 - C-style String Concatenation: stlsoft::cstring_concatenator_iterator
Chapter 40 - String Object Concatenation: stlsoft::string_concatenator_iterator
Chapter 41 - Adapted Iterator Traits: stlsoft::adapted_iterator_traits
Chapter 42 - Filtered Iteration: stlsoft::filter_iterator