Table of Contents
Front page
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 C++ and Boost
1.2 Development Process
1.3 Installation
1.4 Overview
Chapter 2: Smart Pointers
2.1 General
2.2 RAII
2.3 Scoped Pointer
2.4 Scoped Array
2.5 Shared Pointer
2.6 Shared Array
2.7 Weak Pointer
2.8 Intrusive Pointer
2.9 Pointer Container
2.10 Exercises
Chapter 3: Function Objects
3.1 General
3.2 Boost.Bind
3.3 Boost.Ref
3.4 Boost.Function
3.5 Boost.Lambda
3.6 Exercises
Chapter 4: Event Handling
4.1 General
4.2 Signals
4.3 Connections
4.4 Exercises
Chapter 5: String Handling
5.1 General
5.2 Locales
5.3 Boost.StringAlgorithms
5.4 Boost.Regex
5.5 Boost.Tokenizer
5.6 Boost.Format
5.7 Exercises
Chapter 6: Multithreading
6.1 General
6.2 Thread Management
6.3 Synchronization
6.4 Thread Local Storage
6.5 Exercises
Chapter 7: Asynchronous Input and Output
7.1 General
7.2 I/O Services and I/O Objects
7.3 Scalability and Multithreading
7.4 Network Programming
7.5 Developing Boost.Asio Extensions
7.6 Exercises
Chapter 8: Interprocess Communication
8.1 General
8.2 Shared Memory
8.3 Managed Shared Memory
8.4 Synchronization
8.5 Exercises
Chapter 9: Filesystem
9.1 General
9.2 Paths
9.3 Files and Directories
9.4 File Streams
9.5 Exercises
Chapter 10: Date and Time
10.1 General
10.2 Calendar Dates
10.3 Location-independent Times
10.4 Location-dependent Times
10.5 Formatted Input and Output
10.6 Exercises
Chapter 11: Serialization
11.1 General
11.2 Archive
11.3 Pointers and references
11.4 Serialization of class hierarchy objects
11.5 Wrapper functions for optimization
11.6 Exercises
Chapter 12: Parser
12.1 General
12.2 Extended Backus-Naur Form
12.3 Grammar
12.4 Actions
12.5 Exercises
Chapter 13: Containers
13.1 General
13.2 Boost.Array
13.3 Boost.Unordered
13.4 Boost.MultiIndex
13.5 Boost.Bimap
13.6 Exercises
Chapter 14: Data Structures
14.1 General
14.2 Boost.Tuple
14.3 Boost.Any
14.4 Boost.Variant
14.5 Exercises
Chapter 15: Error Handling
15.1 General
15.2 Boost.System
15.3 Boost.Exception
Chapter 16: Cast Operators
16.1 General
16.2 Boost.Conversion
16.3 Boost.NumericConversion