I'm a member of the adjunct faculty at a local college and I'm going to recommend using this book as the formal text for an intro to C++ course. It's a great book but there are two topics that I think are missing: 1) writing Windows Forms applications in C++ and 2) database access in C++. Granted, if you want to write Windows GUIs one should be using WPF, which is practically impossible in C++ and database access should really be done with the Entity Framework in C# (IMHO). However, these two topics are popular with my students and so I end up supplementing this book with other reading material to get through those lessons. So, two questions:

1) Does anyone know a specific reason why those two topics aren't addressed in this book?
2) Does anyone know a recent book that does cover those two topics (for C++)?

Thanks in advance!

I am using Visual studio 2012 professional and it seems that there are no project options for windows forms under C++. Only MFC applications. I'm not sure why, but I thought it was available in visual studio 2010.