Visual C++ 6 Programming Blue Book: The Complete, Fast-Paced Way to Master Visual C++ 98

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Summary: Where's the beef?
Review: What a lousy book. After giving it three tries, I trashed it. The book didn't help me one bit in using VC++. Coming from intermediate VB6 experience with experience in Win32 Perl programming and a rusty and casual knowledge of the C/C++ language, I was looking for a book that will teach me how to use VC++ IDE. What a waste of time. I hate books like these. You're in, say, chapter ten and the example application you're supposed to have done several chapters ago *with the stupid wizard* is needed. First, I don't want to use the damn wizards. What ever happened to building applications from the ground up? Anybody can use the wizard. But what about afterwards? What if you don't want to? Second, I don't care about what was taught several chapter's ago. I want what's in the present chapter of interest! I want to build an interactive UI, like I can do with VB so easily. Perhaps going through ALL the chapters *in sequence* I would have learned *something*. If I were to do that, I might as well take a class instead. I tried the first five chapters in sequence and then tried to skip around and learned that this book [isn't for me]. Look for a another book if you're the type who likes to use books like a reference guide. If you're the type who reads cover to cover and don't mind doing every example and exercise so you can continue onto future chapters, then this book is for you.