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Summary: Great for aspiring Windows developers
Review: This book is great for anyone who wants to develop on the Windows environment. Jeff Prosise makes sure to explain all the details about MFC and how its used in a clear manner, which a lot of books I read before failed to do (like VC++ 5 Bible). It lets you in easy on the coding (and explaining some bugs here and there) and gives an in depth explanation on why things are the way they are in MFC. Of course, this book is not for beginners of C++, but for C++ programmers who wish to program on the Windows environment.Though, one word of advice. Try to read Programming Windows by Charles Petzold first. You'll appreciate this book more if you read his book (even though it's C programming).
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Summary: Book is not for beginning MFC programmers
Review: In the beginning the book is too encyclopedic. There is much more information given than necessary. For example, in the chapter on menues, three methods for getting menus into an application are discussed whereas only one of these methods is widel used. The code examples are more complicated than necessary. For example the font view example is intended to show how to use a list box. It does this, but it also uses callback functions and the windows API function enumfont families which needlessly complicates the example. Something simpler such as putting items into a shopping cart would have done just as well. The chapters on container classes, file I/O, and serialization have no example programs at all. Finally the example used to illustrate document/view architecture has only one view, wheras the entire concept of document/view architecture is intended to support multiple views of a document object. One can learn MFC programming from this book, provided you realize that you don't have to understand everything in chapter two before going on to chapter 3, etc.
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Summary: Not Petzold, unfortunately
Review: Unfortunately this wasn't written by the master, Petzold. However, it does an OK job, but be prepared to spend a lot of money on other books to compliment this one. I would suggest the O'reilly book Essence of C++ and the book Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel, plus the C++ reference from the O'Reilly series.
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Summary: great book from beginner to intermediate users
Review: When I started to learn MFC, I bought many books. Well, after I read all of them, I can create application myself without understanding the concept of MFC. Most of other MFC books just tell you to insert this and that to the .cpp and .h files without even mention what those lines mean. But this book is really fantastic in explaining all the codes in MFC, from the auto included codes done by visual C++ to all the codes that the book tells you to insert.
Besdies, the examples of this book are very illustrative. Though the examples are more complicated than other MFC books, the author explains them really well, and from the example, you will actually catch the concept of MFC programming.
One little flaw about this book is that it's not written as a reference book. it's more like a tutorial to someone who's new or intermediate to MFC but have some knowledge on C++. Thus, after 1 or 2 years in MFC, you might want to look for another MFC reference book.
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Summary: Best book in it's class
Review: Over several years, I have purchased around a dozen books on MFC, and this one by far is not only the best one for learning MFC, but also the best to use as a reference (in addition to MSDN). Some of the examples were a little lengthy, as I prefer shorter examples. The first half of the book is essential for any windows programmer. The second half leans more towards particular advanced topics which are not needed by everyone, but good to have handy when the time comes.
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Summary: Good job!
Review: This book is good if you're beginner in MFC, but it's advisable that you have other programming experience.
The book really shines in its presentation style, its easy and quick read with no long intros and summaries - every sentence is business, author seems be a real-life scenario expert. I haven't seen another book with such no-nonsense presentation style in quite a while.
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Summary: The end-all-be-all of programming books
Review: I'm a senior majoring in Computer Science at Wright State University located in Dayton Ohio. Sadly to say, I was disappointed that my University does not offer a Windows programming class as a requirement or an elective. So I went on a mission to find a MFC book. I stumbled across this book only two weeks ago, and I'm already writing Graphical User Interfaces. The writing flows, the examples are easy to understand, and the layout of the book is amazing. I strongly recommend this book to any professional or student who wants to learn Windows programming. Excellent Book.
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Summary: deep, but too much
Review: I felt this book did a poor introduction to mfc. The topics explain basic concepts way too deeply leaving the reader grasping for air, and struggling to find the end of each chapter. I think the author spent way too much time trying to explain small details that the reader gets lost in all the information. What is needed are more abstract presentations of why different structures are useful. Too much is implied by the writer to the reader, which leads to never ending long sentences of ways of understanding things. Why must writers present such topics in such deep, and complex ways doesnt surprise me anymore. (B. stroustrup for examp) However, this book could certainly be useful to the advanced audience, it still presents information in an overstated complex form which causes too much page flipping and brain pain. I am sure that prosise is a smart guy, seeing as he tries to cover every nook of mfc. But this book presents the information in way too long of form. Maybe for you this book will be helpful, but definately not if you are in any way a beginner with c++ or somebody who does not like too many details before understanding the big picture.
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Summary: All I can say is MFC anyone?
Review: This book has it all.. nothing more to say but buy it.
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Summary: excellent book
Review: If you want to be one MFC programmer, I strongly recommend this book to you. Prosise simplifies the complex MFC into a easy-understand form. I really like his writing style: concise, clear.
prosise avoided wizard to teach MFC,He write the sample program from scratch. I think it will give you a good understanding of MFC internal mechanism, make you not only know how to write code, but also actually know why ? I bieleive the good programmer must understand "why" , not "how". If you really want to be a good programmer ,don't hesitate! go to buy it ,then reading carefully.
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