One last thing that I forgot, does anyone know any good tutorials or books on C++ .NET?

I have this book...
Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Step by Step
ISBN: 0-7356-1907-7
By: Julian Templeman, Andy Olsen

... and frankly it just keeps telling you (click this button, click this checkbox, type this in the textbox that says "Program Name" and so on), that's quite irritating unless you've never programmed before in your life, and you want to learn the complete basics. I stated that before here(how childish this book is)...
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...hreadid=277890 .

One more thing about C++ .NET, it has pointers, right? Don't you need to allocate memory for those things? How else can you use them(either that or assign the address of a different variable to it, but that has limited fun opportunities ) without calling the malloc function or something?