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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is as comprehensive as they get. Very good coverage on all major MFC topics. I particularly like the fact that the book itself is included on the book's CD.
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Summary: good book, but not necessarily for newbies
Review: If I were a practising MFC programmer at the junior or intermediate level, I'd definitely want to have this book as a reference. It is one of the most complete MFC books around, and I like the author's approach of starting off with MFC basics and wrapper classes before moving onto application framework stuff and wizards. This is one of the few books that tells you what's behind some of those macros like DECLARE_DYNCREATE and tells you where to look for it in the source code of MFC itself.However, if you are new to Visual C++ or have never heard of MFC, this is not the book I would recommend. I would suggest picking up Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 6 instead. Real beginners need a book that tells them how to use the IDE, debug programs, and use the wizards. So what if after reading it, all that wizard generated code becomes a blur to you. That's what Prosise and other more advanced books are for. I'm an experienced C++ developer and I had read two MFC books (Beginning Visual C++ 6, MFC Programming by Alan Feuer) and Petzold 5th ed before reading Prosise and I still found it a little difficult reading, mostly because it starts off kind of slow (as someone else mentioned too). The chapter I found most difficult was the one on OLE clipboard/drag & drop. I really recommend reading Petzold 5th ed before reading this or any other intermediate/advanced MFC book. Petzold is more of a beginner's book for Win32 SDK-style GUI programming.
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Summary: Excellent!!!!!!!
Review: This book is the 'bible' of MFC programmers. I have been working on MFC for the last two years. I struggled a lot while entering into MFC. Even with David Kruglinski's book , I struggled a lot in the beginning. But this one is excellent and the best investment I made in books.
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Summary: THIS IS THE STANDARD!!
Review: THIS BOOK STANDS ALONE IN THE MYRIAD OF VISUAL C++ 6 AND MFC BOOKS. THIS IS THE STANDARD BY WHICH ALL OTHERS WILL BE JUDGED, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
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Summary: Clear and logical, this book makes MFC easy
Review: I found this book a most excellent MFC resource, actually the best MFC book on the market. The author's talent in explaining things logically makes reading and understanding the complex MFC easy.
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Summary: Starts slow and low, ends high and fly.
Review: This is the best MFC book ever. Conversational style, and authoritative reference. He puts logic into the nonsensical, and starts slow (no appwizard shtuff and confusion until chapter 4) so everyone can understand. In chapter 4, he slowly walks you through your first simple program involving Visual C++ 6.0's mfc appwizard. This book was made for those who have no clue about the MFC tutorials (95% of those who use Visual C 6.0) in the MSDN library, but yet want to understand MFC someday. However, know your inheritance of classes in C++ before reading. Reading Programming Windows 5th Edition by Charles Petzold before this isn't a bad idea either, but it isn't required, it just makes a much greater appreciation of MFC. MFC still doesn't stand totally on it's own without the win32 API either, but it comes pretty close. The last word of warning is that it is geared to the Visual C 6.0 compiler. So for those with Insprise, you aren't out of luck (it facilitates understanding 1000% still), just some of the stuff about using appwizards (which, come in handy) isn't going to apply to you. Prosise makes compensation for those with other compilers. At the end, he goes into a pretty good COM ActiveX, and OLE tutorial (and how they apply to MFC) but nothing huge (a mere 220 pages).
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Summary: Masterpiece! Only MFC Book I'd buy, if nothing else!!
Review: By far the most "practical" book on the subject. A lot of information presented in a very nuclear manner. You can zero in on the topic and be done figuring out your problem in less than a few minutes. Very small (love it!) code snippets to illustrate the workings. Highly recommended. Caution: Cannot use it for learning MFC from grounds up [See Horton's book on Visual C++], since it might take eons to finish reading the book from cover to cover. Although Mike Blaszczak's MFC book is written in the same spirit, it is far more confusing and stingy on "important" details as compared to this masterpiece by Prosise. [Another useful practical book in MFC: Kaine's "The MFC Answer Book"]
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Summary: No better book for beginners in Visual C++
Review: I struggled to make the transition from my C++ primer to Visual C++ using Kruglinski. This book was then out of print. Now it's my favourite Visual C++/MFC book, and the one I recommend to colleagues needing to get up to speed and daunted by wizard-generated code. The prose is readable, the samples work, and the book covers all the basics as thoroughly as possible. As long as there's MFC, this will stay on my desk. Thanks, Jeff, for making it all so clearly comprehensible.
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Summary: Excelent introductory book
Review: This book provides an almost perfect way to learn using MFC. Starting without the document/view architecture it provides a short insight into internals of MFC and then it covers almost all parts of MFC in following chapters. In my opinion COM would deserve much more space then was available in the book, and there is also no database supprt discussion, but never mind: This is by far the most usefull book for MS Visual C++ programmers I have seen to date
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Summary: Excellent book for beginers
Review: This is the first book I read on MFC. Prosise does a great job explaning the concepts of MFC and the example code listings in the book nail down all the details. My only complaint is that I would have liked more on COM/OLE/Active X than given.
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