Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook

Learn to build applications faster and better by leveraging the real power of Boost and C++

About This Book

• Learn to use the Boost libraries to simplify your application development
• Learn to develop high quality, fast and portable applications
• Learn the relations between Boost and C++11/C++4/C++17

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers looking to improve their knowledge of Boost and who would like to simplify their application development processes. Prior C++ knowledge and basic knowledge of the standard library is assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Get familiar with new data types for everyday use
• Use smart pointers to manage resources
• Get to grips with compile-time computations and assertions
• Use Boost libraries for multithreading
• Learn about parallel execution of different task
• Perform common string-related tasks using Boost libraries
• Split all the processes, computations, and interactions to tasks and process them independently
• Learn the basics of working with graphs, stacktracing, testing and interprocess communications
• Explore different helper macros used to detect compiler, platform and Boost features

In Detail

If you want to take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ and avoid the confusion about which library to use in which situation, then this book is for you.

Beginning with the basics of Boost C++, you will move on to learn how the Boost libraries simplify application development. You will learn to convert data such as string to numbers, numbers to string,