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Summary: Give Us more COM!
Review: Although the book was well done, It needed more coverage on COM in visual C++. On what they have of COM, examples are needed.
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Summary: Acceptable, but not among the best out there...
Review: Did this book! Took me nowhere! If you all ready know a little VC++ it gives you a little more practice and understanding. Not that bad and can't hurt. Got more out of the VC++ tutorials that are about the same stuff level as this book. Want to go somewhere? Do Prosise - Programming Windows with MFC and/or Kruglinski - Programming Visual C++. Its money better spent, they're keepers. Wanta buy my copy of this. Might have its place but not a keeper on my shelf. Could have saved some money...
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Summary: A valuable guide for programmers with some experience
Review: Here we have a compendious treatment of the MFC library and the basics of utilizing it via Visual C++ 6.0. This book is *not* an introduction to the C++ programming language, and although it's theoretically possible to absorb the material herein without prior Windows programming experience, I wouldn't recommend it. If you're looking for something aimed at beginners to this platform or the C++ language, you should look elsewhere. (Try Petzold's 'Programming Windows' for the former, or Lafore's 'Object-Oriented Programming in C++' for the latter.) If you're not, then you may very well find this book to be a useful tutorial and reference.
A little background about me so you can get an idea of where I'm coming from: I've been programming in C for several years and know it extremely well, but in C++ I'm merely competent. I have experience writing Windows applications, but mostly for games, so I never used MFC, and I learned only just enough of the Windows API to put a minimal framework together; the meat of my programs was DirectX calls and game logic. I had used Visual C++ for some time, but had never explored many of its more advanced features. People like me -- who have a good amount of programming experience and a little background knowledge of how Windows operates -- are the ideal audience for this book.
The various aspects of MFC-based programming are introduced briefly and effectively. (The book's table of contents can be viewed here at Amazon.com so you can see for yourself the array of topics the author covers.) No topic receives what I'd call extensive coverage; instead, the author gives you a decent grounding in the basics and gets you up to the point where you know enough to comfortably pursue a deeper understanding using MSDN and other reference materials without needing a tutorial to hold your hand. I find this to be a fine approach. MSDN is a great resource, as long as you're comfortable with the basics of what you're doing and thus know where to look to find answers to your questions.
I do have to knock off one star because I think someone ought to be fired over the book's editing. A very occasional error is excusable, since I know what a large task it is to check a thousand-page manuscript for correctness, but this book has too many of them, dozens of them. They're nothing major, mind you. An inline reference to an image or code listing might give the wrong number. A code segment might have an inappropriate heading, or perhaps a comment that was cut and pasted from a previous example and no longer applies. An image might display something different from what the caption suggests. You can start anywhere in the book you please, and if you're reading closely, you're almost guaranteed to find one of these little slip-ups within ten or fifteen minutes. It's generally easy to figure out what the book intends to say as opposed to what is actually written, but it's still an annoyance. Hopefully the technical editor who missed all these things will keep his eyes open next time he gets an assignment.
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Summary: Good info, many "1st edition"/"quick press" typo's..
Review: I am really enjoying reading this book, as it provides a good amount of information at a good pace. One downfall is that the back cover says it covers ADO (didn't see it in here), and no CD means no direct access to the source until after the book has been recovered...
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Summary: Not so good as the average rate says.
Review: I bought several books like this one, so for more details take look at book with ISBN: 0789716356 where I have written down long rewiev on what I expect from books of type: "Using*", "Beginning*", "Starting*".This book has covered many problems and questoins that no other book has covered, for ex. code written by class wizard - well in my case I don't care what it means. What I expect from book that is called "Beginning*", "Starting*" is to show me how to use Combo boxes, how to use tree views, how to use app wizard to make siple "dialog window" based app. that do trivial task. I would like to see SHORT examples (=easy to remember) how to open some database table, read data into list box. I expect this book to have a tons of small simple, yet, nice looking examples that do basic things. I expect that book has chapters that makes you say: 'This chapter learned me how to insert ActiveX control and I have seen two short, simple, valuable examples that I will save on my HD so I can reuse them one day', Or 'Now I can build app that can store settings to INI file', etc. Well I didn't find what I was looking for in this book. This review might not help you because maybe I was looking for weird things, or I wanted to have a cookbook. But anyway, if you are looking for the same thing I was, then this review might help you.
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Summary: Not so good as the average rate says.
Review: I bought several books like this one, so for more details take look at book with ISBN: 0789716356 where I have written down long rewiev on what I expect from books of type: "Using*", "Beginning*", "Starting*". This book has covered many problems and questoins that no other book has covered, for ex. code written by class wizard - well in my case I don't care what it means. What I expect from book that is called "Beginning*", "Starting*" is to show me how to use Combo boxes, how to use tree views, how to use app wizard to make siple "dialog window" based app. that do trivial task. I would like to see SHORT examples (=easy to remember) how to open some database table, read data into list box. I expect this book to have a tons of small simple, yet, nice looking examples that do basic things. I expect that book has chapters that makes you say: 'This chapter learned me how to insert ActiveX control and I have seen two short, simple, valuable examples that I will save on my HD so I can reuse them one day', Or 'Now I can build app that can store settings to INI file', etc. Well I didn't find what I was looking for in this book. This review might not help you because maybe I was looking for weird things, or I wanted to have a cookbook. But anyway, if you are looking for the same thing I was, then this review might help you.
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Summary: A good C++ CookBook
Review: I have no VC++ experience and hoped to learn VC++ with this book. I just find out this book it not for beginner. It got almost everything and a great cookbook but not for beginer
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Summary: The most complete reference I've found
Review: I have several books on Visual C++ that claim to do what this book does. Most come short of explaining how to do simple things with Visual C++ but this book is not one of them. In this book, the reader learns to use Visual C++ for the most simple processes as well as some pretty complicated things. I highly recommend it for anyone who need to learn about Visual C++!
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Summary: Finally! A proper explanation of Visual C++.
Review: I have worked with C/C++ for some time now, but only in a text-based environment... It became time to work in a proper Windowed environment. I started with one of the SAMS 21 day series books and ended up using it as firewood. Thankfully this book actually ties in C++ classes with the MFC libraries. Unlike the SAMS books, the author chooses to explain the examples line by line. While I have found this to be an excellent tutorial it does not explain C/C++ in the body of the text. There is however a C/C++ review in an appendix. It would definitely be in your best interest to have a decent grasp of C++ fundamentals before beginning. I would suggest O'Reilly Press's C++: The Core Language as a more proper C++ class reference. Overall, money well spent.
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Summary: Very good, but not for newbies...
Review: I recommend you to read other books before this one. This should be your second book. It explains some of AppWizard's code (Good Thing) but not too much as I expected. If your starting I recommend you to buy another book.
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