Mastering Windows 2000 Programming With Visual C++ [Paperback]

Ben Ezzell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2000 | Series: Mastering

Windows 2000 is a major upgrade of the Windows platform and introduces a number of new features that affect Windows developers, including COM+ (an extension of COM that replaces Microsoft Transaction Server), support for a new version of ADO (for database developers), and a host of new APIs. This book covers both essential Windows development topics (such as memory management and graphics programming), as well as introducing enterprise topics (three-tier Web and database programming).

Product Details

• Paperback: 1120 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782126421
• ISBN-13: 978-0782126426
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,631,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The author lacks an audience, April 12, 2001

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Kevin Walters (Bala Cynwyd, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Windows 2000 Programming With Visual C++ (Paperback)

I gambled on this book because the table of contents described the topics that I wanted to learn about.

However, reading the book has been fairly unsatisfactory. The author doesnt seem to know whether his reader is a beginning C++ programmer who unfamiliar with Windows programming, or whether his reader is an experienced developer, well-exposed to MFC and Visual C++. His content wanders from an almost insulting "Windows 2000 for Dummies" to snippets of MFC code that are near useless without installing and reviewing the full code that come on the CD, and probably incomprehensible to a novice.

I was especially confused with why he spent an entire chapter on Petzold-style (C-style) Windows programming and Hungarian notation when virtually all his example code is MFC (C++) code (and an alternate naming convention).

I have been sorely disappointed by the lack of meat to much of the topic matter. I do not feel that I am getting a good understanding of how Windows 2000 works under the hood. I could have as easily derived as much information from a non-programming book, and used Inside Visual C++ (Kruglinski) for the MFC.

All said, the author can write intelligble prose. Small portions have been interesting. I suspect that he did not decide on an audience before writing the book. "Try to please everyone and you will please no one."

4 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent for someone familiar with win programming, March 24, 2000

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ARmond Paiva (Sacto, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Windows 2000 Programming With Visual C++ (Paperback)

Not an up-to-date book for beginning windows programming. Good for someone familiar with Visual C++ for 9X.