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In the following series, learn all about STL from the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft’s keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership with the owners of STL and Microsoft, including, of course, bug fixes and enhancements to the STL that ships as part of Visual C++).

• Part 1 (sequence containers)
• Part 2 (associative containers)
• Part 3 (smart pointers)
• Part 4 (an extended example of using the STL to solve Nurikabe puzzles)
• etc

Andrei Alexandrescu gives his keynote presentation, “Iterators Must Go!” at BoostCon 2009. Slides are available here (pdf).

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Iterators Must Go (Google Docs)

• download latest Boost version
• unpack it
• run “Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt” bat file

build bjam

• go to %BOOST%/tools/jam/src folder
• run build.bat file
• copy bjam.exe file to %BOOST%/bin folder from %BOOST%/tools/jam/src/bin.ntx86 folder

build boost

• go to %BOOST% folder
• compile Boost using bjam.exe:

bin\bjam.exe –build-dir=”C:\Dev\Libs\boost\build-boost” –toolset=msvc –build-type=complete stage

std::map<wstring, wstring> map1;
std::map<wstring, wstring> map2(map1);
std::map<wstring, wstring> map3(map2.begin(), map2.end());

map1.insert(map3.begin(), map3.end());
map2 = map3;
std::copy(map2.begin(), map2.end(), inserter(map1, map1.end()));