Steal This Code! Create Reusable Software Components for Windows 95 and Windows NT [Paperback]

Al Williams (Author), Woody Leonhard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1995

Learning to write and reuse software components yields enormous gains inprogrammer productivity and application performance and reliability. Pluggingin tested code for proven components saves time across all phases ordevelopment and testing. Sharing components provides consistent behavior acrossapplications, and fixing a bug in component code repairs all applications thatuse it. Steal This Code! is an ultra-functional handbook of C and C++/MFCtechniques for creating reusable code components, providing Windows(R) 95 andWindows NT programmers with the tools they need to develop efficient reusablecode modules and libraries. This book walks readers through the steps involvedin creating Win32, MFC, and OLE Control components, then applies thesetechniques through numerous practical examples. You'll learn: * how to use subclassing, superclassing, and autoclassing to modify a classWindow procedure* methods for extending Windows 95 controls to work better with your ownprograms* techniques for creating your own DLL-bases controls that are virtuallyindistinguishable from standard Windows components* how to write MFC extension DLLs, how to use MFC to get a jumpstart on OLEControls, and more. The disk includes a library of components developed by the author using thetechniques demonstrated in the book--a library that readers can plunder at willfor individual drop-in code modules. 0201409984B04062001

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About the Author

Al Williams is a professional software developer, a regular contributor toDr. Dobb's Journal and a contributing editor to PC Techniques. Heis the author of OLE and DDE Distilled (Addison-Wesley). 0201409984AB04062001

Product Details

• Paperback: 357 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; Pap/Dskt edition (December 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201409984
• ISBN-13: 978-0201409987
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,331,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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