MFC Programming from the Ground Up

By Herbert Schildt

Book Overview

MFC 6 is a major revision shipping with Visual C++6. This text is a comprehensive description of all MFC essentials with ready-to-run examples, tips and suggestions for those programmers making the transition from API for Windows programming. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0078825733
• ISBN13: 9780078825736
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 663 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great book for beginners and beginning windows programming

I think the "from the ground up" books are excellent". I have about 20+ years experience in various languages (fortran, C, C++, Pascal etc). Most of my experience is in straight line programming and was having trouble getting my brain around the MFC concepts. I spent a couple of days with the Windows 98 from the ground up to get the nuts and bolts view of windows programming and another couple of days with MFC Programming...

Good for beginner

It's pretty hard to learn MFC, especially people that know only C/C++. I had some experience with Windows Programming, such as console application, Borland Delphi, but still I had a difficulty understanding the MFC. I tried to read some MFC books such as Visual C++ unleashed, and MCSE, but they don't help me much.This book will not tell HOW TO USE THE WIZARD. But instead, it tells you what all those "hidden" stuffs actually...

Different from ANY other Windows Progamming Book

If you have had the chance to read any of the programming books that are out there you will know this one stands out on a MAJOR point:This is the only Windows programming book that I know of that shows you how to build Windows or MFC programs without using Wizards! All the other books build from the AppWizards - why buy a book for that when those examples come with Microsoft Visual Studio anyway?!This book shows you how to...

Concise, easy, and useable...

I bought both of the MFC and Windows 98 Programming from the Ground Up books at the same. They are nearly indentical in content. This fact is great for a begginning Window's programmer (like me), but not so great for those on a budget. The Windows 98 book has more subjects, but is written using the 'traditional' Windows programming methods. The MFC book (of course) uses MFC and therefore is the much easier way to program...

Excellent introduction to MFC Programming

As many of the other reviews point out, this book teaches you how to write MFC applications without the damn wizard. Most books, actually all of the books on MFC, besides Jeff Prosie's, I've seen use the wizard approach Microsoft pushes. If you want to learn MFC programming you NEED to get this book or Prosie's. I have not met a professional MFC programmer that uses the wizards. As Schildt points out in his book, you end...