Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies [Paperback]

INT Media Group (Author), Nigel Quinnin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 3, 2003

CodeGuru.com, an Internet.com site, is the key source of beginner to advanced Visual C++ information for top professional developers. Members visit the site to find and to leave posts about the most challenging tasks Visual C++ developers run into in practice. In addition, members have access to vast archives of technical articles and industry commentary from leading programmers in the market today. As a service to CodeGuru.com members and the programming public, this book has been pulled together from the top-rated articles and postings to provide easy-to-use and -reference code, commentary and quick fixes. Coverage includes both Visual C++ 6 and .NET, as most programmers are still using the older version of the language for day-to-day work, as well as topics like user interface design, COM, controls, database programming, graphics, DLL, plus much more. The CD-ROM is a valuable resource tool for developers to find the code they need and copy it into their applications, all royalty-free.

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CodeGuru.com, an Internet.com site, is the key source of beginner to advanced Visual C++ information for top professional developers. Members visit the site to find and to leave posts about the most challenging tasks Visual C++ developers run into in practice. In addition, members have access to vast archives of technical articles and industry commentary from leading programmers in the market today. As a service to CodeGuru.com members and the programming public, this book has been pulled together from the top-rated articles and postings to provide easy-to-use and -reference code, commentary and quick fixes. Coverage includes both Visual C++ 6 and .NET, as most programmers are still using the older version of the language for day-to-day work, as well as topics like user interface design, COM, controls, database programming, graphics, DLL, plus much more. The CD-ROM is a valuable resource tool for developers to find the code they need and copy it into their applications, all royalty-free.

About the Author

Nigel Quinnin, editor for the book, CodeGuru.com member and frequent contributor, is the chief technology officer for Qubit Automation and founder of Computerlink Technology, Inc., a top software research and development firm in San Diego, CA. Nigel has been working as a software development and test engineer for the past eighteen years both in England and the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Que (February 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789727773
• ISBN-13: 978-0789727770
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,731,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book rocks!, March 3, 2003

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John - See all my reviews

This review is from: Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies (Paperback)

...This book actually features tons of the best articles on the accompanying web sitem, and what more, it's been edited and optimzied, in terms of explanation and documentation.

You will not, and never will, regret after paying small bucks for this book. Use this book whether you're a newbie or advance programmer. For newbies, there's tons of free controls in the book with free source code(royalty free) whereby you can use and learn.
For intermmediate folks, you can always use the concise examples in the book as a reference if you're stuck somewhere, or better still, modify the code to suit your needs.
For advanced programmers, the code can give you some valuable insight and save you time. After all, there's no such thing as one programmer "who knows all". There's always something to learn.

This book is best used as a companion book to a thorough-programming book you have, like Jeff Prosise's "Programming Windows with MFC" etc.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good collection of articles, March 6, 2004

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Thomas M. Archer (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies (Paperback)

Of course since I was one of the original people that ran CodeGuru before it was sold, it probably comes as little surprise that I would like this book :) However, regardless of my past ties, I do believe this is a fine addition to anyone's tech library as it provides a fine collection of articles/code in a very well organized format. I also like how the editors selected and categorized the articles they selected which could not have been an easy task as CG contains over literally thousands of articles.

I do agree with Keith Rule (a valuable contributor to CG over the years) that I wish they had contacted me regarding my own articles that appear in the book as I have more current versions of my code that are not on their site. If anyone wishes to access the updated code, please contact me through my web site at:

www . ArcherConsultingGroup . com

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit dated, but not bad, March 27, 2003

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K. Rule (Beaverton, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies (Paperback)

I agree with the other reviewers that this book is a bit dated. They should have included some info on VS 7.0. But the biggest surprize to me was to see several articles attributed to me. Yes, I did contribute to Codeguru but I wasn't even aware that book had been published until a ran across the book on Amazon while looking for something else.

I wish they would have contacted me when considering the articles for inclusion. At least one of the article attributed to me has several annoying errors do to problems codeguru had early on when dealing with source code and html (I had tried several times to get the typos fixed on codeguru with no success). I would have happily given them corrections. Oh well.

So pages 119-128 have code several typos in the code (substitute -> for - in several places in the code).

Other than that it's a good addition to my programming bookshelf.