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Summary: Not worth the price
Review: As a previous reviewer noted. The VC5 book is the same, and it came with a cd. The new book has minor changes, no cd, and is more expensive. Prosise's book is much better and actually has full sample programs.
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Summary: Great book
Review: As someone stated, you'll find info in here that no other book has. Also - what's up with that retard who gave the book 1 star because it wasn's shipped on time? Some people should just get a clue, and stay as away from technology altogether.
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Summary: A beginner's experience
Review: Before reading this book I had no idea of MFC architecture.. (Document-view etc). After reading first chapter I thought this book is for hard core MFC developers, not for me .. but if you continue to read along.. it gives you pretty solid grounding in this subject.. You feel you know a lot about that topic now. I like his style.. Only thing that I found negative is lots of text but less example.. but then again this is not MFC by example.. If you need solid grounding in MFC this book is for you.. I learned more from this book than Kruglinski's book that was referred by many people..
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Summary: An extensive resource that fills a lot of holes
Review: Have had this book for about 3-4 months and find myself referring to it more and more. The DevNet CD's have 1.8 Gig of information, and I have a half dozen other MFC books, but I often find for technical issues that this book is the only source that covers the finer details that are the actual cause of the problem.
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Summary: Not much new; NO CD(!?)
Review: I have the previous edition, and wanted to be sure I had Mike's latest view on any point I'm having trouble with. Noone knows as much about MFC as he does. That said though, after comparing the table of contents of this new edition and the previous one, I have to wonder if I have more money than brains. The page counts of some sections have increased a little, but there's just enough change in page layout to make it unclear if there's much new material at all. Also, even though my invoice said the book includes a CD, there is none. As an earlier review points out, the previous edition had one, and it even included the full text of the book. That's a major help when searching for something. For the price difference, I'd be hard pressed to recommend that anyone buy this new edition when they could get the previous one cheaper and also have the CD. If you already have the previous edition, save your money and prove you're smarter than me.
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Summary: amazing book
Review: I own 6 MFC books, and out of all of them, Professional MFC with Visual Studio 6 is by far the most complete. When I wanted to look up a subject I was having trouble with, I used to have to flip through a few of my books before I found a decent section covering the topic, if I even did. Since I bought this book however, I just look in it and the rest of the books have been gathering dust on my floor. I'd highly recommend it. I'm using VS 2003, but MFC hasn't changed that much so the content is still relevant. There was no CD with the book, but I was able to track down a download that contained all the sample code after following a few links (the d/l location mentioned in the book is no longer there).
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Summary: DJ MIKE's DEF JAM
Review: I read the previous edition, VC++ 5.0, which is 1,050 pages long. The current edition is much the same book and is 1,200 pages long. When I bought the previous edition, I wasn't planing to read all of it, nor even a third of it. I expected I'd read a few chapters and have the rest available for possible reference. But I ended up reading every chapter. As it says on the back cover the book is intended as a tutorial, not a reference work. It covers large tracts of the Microsoft programming platform with the assumption that you've already had some exposure to the platform as a programmer. And it's one of the very best computer programming books I've ever read.
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Summary: No CD, no stars
Review: There is good information in this book, but the CD-ROM was one of the best features in the previous editions and removing it is inexcuseable.
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Summary: Expert Advice, Well Hidden
Review: There's no doubt that Blaszczak knows MFC. Expertise nonwithstanding, however, the book suffers and ultimately fails for two reasons: poor writing infused with distracting try-too-hard humor, and an index that's so far off in the weeds as to be utterly useless. If you feel you must purchase this book, try reading a few pages first; if the author doesn't annoy you within two pages, you may get along with him just fine. Count on this, however: you WILL need a different book as a reference. The index, when it contains what I'm looking for at all, is often several pages off target. Most often, though, I can't even find what I'm looking for in the index. The party's pretty much over for MFC anyway, and thank God for that. At least Microsoft finally came to their senses and cloned much of Java for their C#/.NET stuff.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This book is well worth the price. It does a very good job of explaining MFC. Easy to read, even though it has 1200 +/- pages. You don't even have to read each chapter in order to learn what you need to know. Some reviewers complained that there is no CD. Fear not, you can download all source code from the wrox website. Sure, it's less convenient than a CD, but oh well.
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