Programming Windows 95 With Mfc (Microsoft Programming)

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Summary: best book on mfc
Review: i have seen a lot of books on this subject all of them begin with the appwizard tool as an instructor i cant use the appwizard as a teaching tool so i had a problem with that kind of book as i saw this book its was axactly what i was looking for. best for learning MFC and teaching it and in one word - Perfect

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Summary: Good explanation of MFC concepts
Review: It's a good book to learn about MFC. However, the relation between MFC and wizards in Visual C++ is not clearly described. Also, I think (actually I'm sure) that there is a bug in the book.

In Chapter 13, there is a program called Wanderer. This nice program teaches us how to traverse the directories using MFC. However, the usage of the function "CloseHandle" in this program is wrong. The function "FindClose" should have been used instead.

Because I've trusted the code segment given in the book, I've lost a day in vain in trying to find a bug in "my" code.

I am sure that I am not the first one who found this bug. If the author is aware of this bug, I wonder why he didn't publish an errata in the web pages of mspress. This could save me (and I believe others) a lot of time.

Since the e-mail address of the author given in the book ([e-mail]) is unreachable (the mailbox is full), I currently cannot contact the author about this bug. Anyway, it's a good book but beware of this bug.

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Summary: Easy and concrete examples
Review: Programming Windows 95 with MFC is very simple and concrete examples for basic windows programming with MFC.This book consists of the three parts and 14 chapters.The first part explain "MFC basic" and the second part explain "document/view architecture". The last part explain advanced topics, such as commom control, threads and thread synchronization. I recommend this book for the beginner of Windows Programming.

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Summary: The Best there is
Review: Reading previous reviews, there's not much left for me to add. Except that I have a library of over 200 programming books, and this one is still my favorite one!

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Summary: An excellent introduction to MFC
Review: This book is the best introduction I have found for MFC programming. It builds up fundamentals like dialogs and the document/view architecture (which is introduced extremely well but not to great depth) before tackling multi-threading or the common controls.

This is written for a C++ programmer with little or no experience with graphical / windows development, and is an excellent first step with MFC before launching into the more hardcore books by people like Herbert Schildt or Mike Blazczak. A well-written and well focused book

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Summary: Nice comprehensive coverage of MFC but lacks depth.
Review: This is a nice introduction to MFC. I especially appreciated the way Prosise builds up to the Document/View Architecture and his coverage of threads. There are numerous examples to help clarify topics. However, many examples are too lengthy and repetitively used, making for a longer book than necessary. It primarily focuses on the GUI side of Windows coding, which is vital since MFC saves you from writing lots of dull windows maintenance code, but still leaves you thirsting for more lower level power. To compensate, I ordered Petzold's book "Windows 95 Programming" since direct windows API calls can be made from MFC. It does not cover database (CDatabase/CDaoDatabase) or networking (CAsyncSocket) capabilities which should have been included in its advanced section instead of Bitmaps,Palettes, and Regions. In all, I would recommend this book because it is well written and does "jump start" you into the world of MFC.

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Summary: Outstanding Book for Beginning Windows Programmers
Review: This is an excellent MFC beginner's book, and I still use it as a reference after 3 years of WIN32 MFC programming. Prosise writes clearly and he and/or his editors are good at organizing a book and creating a useful index. Furthermore, Prosise' code appears to all have been compiled and tested, unlike most of the book garbage out there.

This is a book for programmers seriously interested in learning to program for Windows 95/98 in MFC, not for people who don't even know how to run a C++ compiler or think programmers do any real work with the cheesy VC++ "wizards".

I would say that this is a "must have" MFC book for new MFC programmers, except that it is getting out of date. It doesn't have beans for coverage of the newer WIN32 common controls, anything on database programming (DAO/ADO), and basically doesn't cover MFC 4.2. For new purchasers, I would wait for the next edition, which was supposed to be out in the spring of 1998, (I have had it on back order for months). Many updates are greatly needed to cover programming for Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0. In particular, Document/View GUI applications of any serious complexity frequently involve a database, so the lack of any coverage of DAO is pretty limiting.