Practical Visual C++ 6

by Timothy Tompkins and Jonathan Bates

Book Overview

A straight forward, no-nonsense approach to teaching C++, this guide begins with the basics of Developer Studio, moves on to the core language, and then progresses into the Microsoft Foundation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789721422
• ISBN13: 9780789721426
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

It is absolute a great book for beginer and intermediate Visual C++ programmers involved with MFC. The examples are well illustrated and easy to follow/understand! It covers most of the Visual C++ 6 Child Controls. Of course, this book is for programmers with subtantial knowledge of C++. Great book to buy!

Great Visual C++ Beginning!

I'm an experienced VB 6 and C++ programmer and I was looking for a good introduction for the visual part of C++ for windows programming. This book is really helpful! In the first chapters you begin programming with Visual C++ using MFC (knowing it or don't knowing it) and covers all programming skills you need to begin business programming (databases, ActiveX...) in the style of Visual C++. Also it has a good reference for MFC. For sure this is a beginners tutorial, but if you don't know anything of C++ I recommends you to take up some tutorial first to understand what's going on. I also recommend it for the VB programmers.Yes, the book was renamed, old version was titled "Using Visual C++", but that's don't really matter with the its contents.

A revelation!

If I see one more hack write their version of Microsoft Documentation Regurgitated I think I'm going to lose my lunch. Fortunately, this isn't one of those. This book differentiates itself by what it leaves out--you won't see nook and cranny of Visual C++ covered, and you won't get 800,000 lines of code free on the CD. Instead, it picks out the key features you really need to know to start getting a handle on Visual C++, and covers them clearly and thoroughly.This book assumes you know how to write C++, and it assumes you understand object oriented programming, so it doesn't waste your time trying to rehash them. If you don't know these things, get a different book. But if you know the language but are new to MFC and the specifics of Visual C++, you'll find yourself able to put together a program in surprisingly short order.At first, I was surprised and alarmed by the fact that it contained no CD of sample code like I'm used to seeing. But upon reflection, this makes perfect sense. Many of the nuances of working with Visual C++ and MFC are in working with the Visual Studio GUI and various wizards, and the chapters that concentrate on a topic take you through all the steps needed to create sample programs. The code that *is* used in the samples is inline in the chapter, but by creating it all yourself (rather than just opening a file on a CD), you get a feel for really using the tools.Frankly, I always thought Visual C++ and MFC were really complicated to program in. If you know C++ pretty well, after you've worked through the chapters of this book that are relevant to whatever you're trying to program, it will be as easy as working in Visual Basic, and you'll still get all the power of a real programming language.Of course, if you're looking to do low-level systems programming in Windows or tackle other advanced areas, this book isn't going to tell you how to do it. But it will make hooking up the front-end GUI, connecting to a standard ODBC database, and other common tasks quick and painless, so you can spend your time concentrating on the hard parts.

A Great Book, Plain and Simple

This is the book to buy if you want to learn Visual C++ 6. It explains VC++ in a comprehensive and direct way. No sidelines, no roundabouts. Just good plain learning, well written and worth you time.Within the first few chapters I was programming intermediate VC++ code using MFC thanks to this books presentation.

This book is great for Visual C++ Beginners

I found this book easy to follow. Not only do you get an understanding of MS VC++ but you also get a great tutorial on the MSVC IDE. I've read a lot of VC++ books that have left me more confused than educated. In most of the books, by the time you get to the discussion of controls you're already bored out of your wits. This book starts out with dialog boxes and controls, including ActiveX (great from a Visual Basic perspective), and then gets into SDI's, MDI's,Device Contexts, et al. Buy this book for a good general discussion and tutorial of VC++ and then buy a more advanced book which discusses your subject of interest in more detail (e.g., Jeff Prosise's Programming Windows with MFC). The exercises are great so do yourself a favor and key them in. Also, you don't have to be a C++ wiz to understand what's going on.