Programming Windows with MFC

By Richard M. Heiberger

A definitive book for developers who want to understand and profit from the advances inherent in C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library, this book explores the basics and, for the first time, gives authoritative coverage of OLE and ActiveX. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572316950
• ISBN13: 9781572316959
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1200 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 8.1" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent coverage, good advice

I bought this book instead of one of Mike Blaszczak's "Professional MFC With VC++6". I like this author's writing style of presentation better than the chatty style of Blaszczak. Prosise starts with the basics, building an MFC application by hand and then shows you how to automate that process with the Wizards."Wizards" are just code generators, but once they generate the code it is YOUR code and you must understand, modify...

great book from beginner to intermediate users

When I started to learn MFC, I bought many books. Well, after I read all of them, I can create application myself without understanding the concept of MFC. Most of other MFC books just tell you to insert this and that to the .cpp and .h files without even mention what those lines mean. But this book is really fantastic in explaining all the codes in MFC, from the auto included codes done by visual C++ to all the codes that...

Excellent book for developers young and old!

This book covers a great deal of MFC development. The book starts with a little work with how Win32 programming is done in standard C (see, Charles Petzold's Programming Windows for more). The book clearly defines the inner workings of the "windows message pump" and gives the reader a sense of what environment they are heading into.Warning: If you are not good in Object Oriented Programming this book is not the first...

good book, but not necessarily for newbies

If I were a practising MFC programmer at the junior or intermediate level, I'd definitely want to have this book as a reference. It is one of the most complete MFC books around, and I like the author's approach of starting off with MFC basics and wrapper classes before moving onto application framework stuff and wizards. This is one of the few books that tells you what's behind some of those macros like DECLARE_DYNCREATE...

Starts slow and low, ends high and fly.

This is the best MFC book ever. Conversational style, and authoritative reference. He puts logic into the nonsensical, and starts slow (no appwizard shtuff and confusion until chapter 4) so everyone can understand. In chapter 4, he slowly walks you through your first simple program involving Visual C++ 6.0's mfc appwizard. This book was made for those who have no clue about the MFC tutorials (95% of those who use Visual...