Boost takes you far beyond the C++ Standard Library, making C++ programming more elegant, robust, and productive. Now, for the first time, a leading Boost contributor systematically introduces the Boost libraries and teaches best practices for their use.

    Writing for intermediate-to-advanced C++ developers, Bj๖rn Karlsson briefly outlines all 58 Boost libraries, and then presents comprehensive coverage of the 12 libraries you're likely to find most useful. Karlsson's topics range from smart pointers and conversions to containers and data structures, explaining exactly how using each library can improve your code. He offers detailed coverage of higher-order function objects that enable you to write code that's more concise, expressive, and readable. He even takes you "behind the scenes" with Boost, revealing tools and techniques for creating your own generic libraries.

Coverage includes      

- Smart pointers that provide automatic lifetime management
   of objects and simplify resource sharing
- Consistent, best-practice solutions for implementing type and
   lexical conversions
- Utility class and function templates that make programming
   simpler and clearer
- Flexible container libraries that solve common problems
   ignored by the standard library
- Boost. Bind and Boost. Lambda: controlling the proliferation
   of small function objects
- Boost. Function: replacing callbacks with a more flexible
   approach
- Boost. Signals: a managed signals and slots system that
   implements the Gang of Four's Observerpattern

    The Boost Libraries are proving so useful that many of them are planned for inclusion in the next version of the C++ Standard Library. Get your head start now, with Beyond the C++ Standard Library

Part I: GENERAL LIBRARIES.
Part II: CONTAINERS AND DATA STRUCTURES.
Part III: FUNCTION OBJECTS AND HIGHER-ORDER
PROGRAMMING.