Special Edition Using Mfc and Atl (Special Edition Using...)

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Summary: Get deceived and Get angry!
Review: Loaded with errors. Reads like a draft copy.

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Summary: Simplistic; almost useless for anyone but a beginner
Review: The "user level" on this book centers on "accomplished". Nothing could be farther from the truth. The book covers 10 or so sample apps/controls that are basically nothing but "run the wizard, and add some code". No real discussion of MFC and how to use it, and the ATL examples are ridiculously simple -- not one of them has any graphic components. If you know nothing about MFC and VC++ 5.0's wizards, then maybe you might want to read this book. But maybe not.

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Summary: ok
Review: This book is a great introduction to MFC and ATL. I think it help programmers to understand MFC but it also makes you confused. E.g. in the first chapter Views and Docs are explained but in next chapters the Docs are Views aren't used as they were explained and somtimes they aren't even used at all. Simple functions such as scroll bars aren't explained but Controls (Progress Bars etc.) are much easier to use and they are explained in detail.
The book is also loaded with ERRORs.
The ATL and COM chapters are explained in details and the books gets its 2 stars for that.

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Summary: Get deceived and Get angry!
Review: This book is a VERY VERY VERY introductory book, not for experienced programmers. I bought this book for using referrence. But it is filled with too elaborate stuff, I think, useless! For those who have no programming experiece , this book will be a good tutorial, I think.

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Summary: MFC examples are helpful but........
Review: This book is packed with a lot of examples of using controls, and lists the hierarchy of the MFC.But I was unable to open the project examples from the CD with VC++ 6 standard. It does cover a majority classes, however it lacks content dealing with code, so you will have to know C++ very well to use this text.
The entire book is in eformat on the CD which is good, and some of the files could be used which makes the book good for all round reference.