Introduction to MFC Programming with Visual C++: With CDROM [With CDROM]

by Richard M. Jones

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130166294
• ISBN13: 9780130166296
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Not passed page 2 - fixed

About the book having been written for a previous version of MFC - The console applications in chapters 1 through 3 will run fine after you replace #include with#include using namespace std;All other 90 plus programs work fine with the exception of 3 programs that use the slider control: Ex07f-sliders, Ex08e-DialogMsgMap, Ex08f_DialogMsgMapIcon. The compilation error in the function OnVScroll() can be fixed by replacing the type CWnd* with CScrollBar*.

The book to jump from C++ to MFC

My suggestion, get a traditional 1000+ page book that turns out to be nothing but cookbook, struggle through it a couple times until you are ready to give up your dream of ever programming windows in C++, then buy this book and get ready to have your questions answered! Out of the 20 or so computer books I have on my shelf there are 3 that I have learned nearly all my programming skills from and this is one of those 3. If you know C++ including classes fairly well you will have no problem writing basic MFC programs with the background to do more complex programming after reading this book.

Easy to Understand and Informative!

I have been programming C++ for like 2 years but don't know anything about MFC. This book helps me learn MFC. Jones' explanations are really good and there are a lot of screen-shots to support that. Rather than reading through the code, you look at the screen-shot, and you know right away what a program does. The other thing is the book doesn't use AppWizard right away. Jones makes you start from the scratch which gives you the insight look on all MFC classes and data types. But this book doesn't teach C++! You have to know basic C++ and some OOP, or you will feel lost most of the time. If you are new to MFC, go get this book. If you alreay know MFC, this book will be too easy for you. If you don't know C++, this is not your book. I also recommend that you get MS Visual C++ 6.0 so that you could try out all the programs in the book. Keep it up! There are cool Windows applications ahead!

The most important of three you need.

This is an excellent book. It is an introduction, but that doesn't mean it gives little information - it leaves out lots of things you don't need, but there's plenty here. It doesn't leave out important details, and when you need to know something, it isn't hidden. I said "three books". You also need the Prosise book, and maybe(but probably not) one of those crash course books(21 days, 15 minutes, whatever), but this book helped me a lot. It is well written, and follows a good path at a steady pace. The only thing I wish for is that the answers to the problems were included or available on the CD or web. This is not a book on C or C++, but if you have only a little experience programming you won't be stumped. It's also not version-specific. If you use version 1.52 through version 6 of VC++ you'll be fine.

This is a great book!

After going through several MFC books, I found this one. It doesn't tell you how to use the Wizard but rather what the wizard does for you. Great fundamentals and good explanation of concepts. This is book perfectly suited for a C or C++ programmer who wants to learn MFC.