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Summary: It's an "OK" book.
Review: First things first, if you are a beginner my advise is to read books for beginners then move on to MFC books for the advanced. I noticed in a lot of reviews people seem to think that one book is all they need and expect one book to do it, but the sad thing is they end up using the book as a paper weight or they stop study the language because they got the wrong book, or they get confused. If you study and learn any language in the right order with the right books its hard not to enjoy! Read C++ in 21 days, second edition, by Jesse Liberty. Get through Jesse's book on the C++ language first then move on to learning Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Then read C++ 6.0 in 21 days by Davis Chapman to get some of the MFC learning. Then read everything on advanced Visual C++ 6.0 to enhance you MFC understanding. Now you will have to add all these books to your library reference because it seems one book on C++ 6.0 will not tell you everything you need to know because when you start your own programming you're always do something different than what these books seem to cover and guess what? That's right, you will have to figure this out yourself by referencing more than just one book. Example: I needed more info on property sheets and finally found it in MFC Advanced, which is now discontinued for now on Amazon. This book Visual C++ 6.0 & MFC has some good info in it but it's short on detail but I will have to say it's a good book to help build your library on this subject. I had a problem with property sheets and this book did not cover enough to help me with my problem. It uses a control button you click on a menu to pull up a tabbed property sheet and I wanted to convert my main dialog class to a property sheet class to build my application instead of having the property sheet added to my application in a menu control. But I learned from its CTime class on how to display clock time in a better format. Did find some errors but that seems to happen in most book anyway. So, I give this book 3 stars because it doesn't cover enough in-depth information to be a professional software development book.
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Summary: Civil Engineer
Review: I think that this is a grate book for beginers. It gives you examples of almost everything you need.
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Summary: It's an "OK" book.
Review: If you are new to MFC and Visual C++, this book will help you. When you want to start learning why some things are done a certain way, you are out of luck. This book will walk you through the basics of using the MFC in Visual C++. You will learn the steps you take in VC to do basic component manipulation in MFC but only on the surface. The examples are not really that good. Sure they convey the principle but that's about it. I found myself with more questions to ask and no answers to be found. If you have never done any MFC programming before, this is a good place to start. Otherwise, my advise is to keep looking. -=} Randall {=-
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Summary: Lacking in Details
Review: If you are new to MFC and Visual C++, this book will help you. When you want to start learning why some things are done a certain way, you are out of luck. This book will walk you through the basics of using the MFC in Visual C++. You will learn the steps you take in VC to do basic component manipulation in MFC but only on the surface. The examples are not really that good. Sure they convey the principle but that's about it. I found myself with more questions to ask and no answers to be found. If you have never done any MFC programming before, this is a good place to start. Otherwise, my advise is to keep looking. -=} Randall {=-
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Summary: Very confusing
Review: This is a terribly organized book. 1. There are lots of errors and inconsistency, which cause lots of confusion. I've only reached chapter 5 and already noticed these errors:
1) Page 57: the book shows you how to create a "CDataDlg" class, however, on Page 60, inside the code: "CDlgData dlg(this)" - the class name becomes "CDlgData" and this error repeats on Page 61 too;
2) Page 68: "1. From ClassView, select CDlgData" - well, the figure actually shows "CDlgNew", not "CDlgData" and this discrepancy repeats several times in the chapter;
3) Page 69, in the code "m_csLastname = "Jones";
m_edtLastnaem.SetWindowText("Jones");" - the first line is totally unnecessary, besides, variable m_csLastname is not declared so if you follow his code closely, the program won't work. 2. Looks like the author isn't very sure what type of readers he is addressing: Page 57: "6. At the end of this line press [Enter]...The cursor will be placed immediately below this line..." Looks like he thinks his readers are bunch of [people] knowing nothing about how to use a text editor, not to mention C++ and we need to follow strictly his explanation. Well, if we really follow his book so closely, we will definitely be frustrated by these errors mentioned above.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK
Review: This is a very poorly written book. If you follow the instructions, none of your programs will work. If I could give it a ZERO stars I would. I wasted my money on this book.
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Summary: fantastic!
Review: this is the best one in windows programming field that I've ever seen since last five years.
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