Mfc Black Book [Paperback]

Al Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1997

Learn how to "color outside the lines" and create programs that work the way you want--not just the way MFC wants them to work. "MFC5 Black Book" shows readers how, explaining how to create MFC programs that are compatible with legacy systems on PCs, mini computers, or mainframes. The CD-ROM contains all examples, project files, and source code in the book plus ready-to-use MFC code files.

Product Details

• Paperback: 565 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576101851
• ISBN-13: 978-1576101858
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,527,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! The Best MFC Book I've Ever Read, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mfc Black Book (Paperback)

I've been programming "real" apps for sometime using MFC, and this book is way cool. There are many, many things in here that I did not know how to do until I read it.

The examples were practical, and weren't snipped down so much that I couldn't figure out where things were supposed to go. (Besides, if you don't like the listings, it is all on the CD).

I've had this book for awhile -- it is very clear and really really cool. If you are just muddling through MFC (or don't know it at all), get an introductory book on MFC first. But if you understand MFC, but want it to do more, get this book -- you will love it.

Here are my comments by chapter --

Chapter 1 - Mostly review. A good refresher, but if you don't understand MFC already, you'll miss the point of this book anyway.

Chapter 2 - Serializing with encryption or to a database? Great! Reading old file versions too

Chapter 3 - Custom print preview with editing during preview was exactly what I needed for one of my apps.

Chapter 4 - The CListCtrl and CScrollView improvements are great. I never thought of the author's method for using CEditView with splitters, either. The owner draw stuff, I'd used before, but still good stuff. And now I know why my nested splitter code never worked. It does now!

Chapter 5 - Using DDV to validate fields "live" instead of all at one time seems simple now that I saw how to do it. I want to find time to play with the custom DDX/DDV too.

Chapter 6 - Modeless property sheets are very neat.

Chapter 7 - I've done a lot with MFC DLLs, so this wasn't much new for me, but it was still a good DLL chapter.

Chapter 8 - This is a good intro to ActiveX using MFC. Of course ActiveX is a big topic and there are whole books on it, too.

Chapter 9 - I haven't had a chance to do any of the Internet stuff with MFC, but it sure looks easy in this chapter.

Chapter 10 - I work a lot with databases; this chapter is introductory; again, whole books on this subject, but a nice overview with some solid examples.

Chapter 11 - I'd used simple multithreading before, but the part on using threads with event loops was fantastic! In fact, I read this chapter first because it solved a design problem we were having at work.

There's more cool stuff in here, but these are the things I was particularly interested in.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great look into insights of MFC programming, January 8, 2006

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This review is from: Mfc Black Book (Paperback)

This book explains a lot of the underlying concepts and principles of MFC and why they turn against you if you wander off the path ;). Its not an all encompassing MFC Reference (use the MSDN), or an A-Z Programmers Guide, its the book you need at an intermediate level to understanding the MFC way of thinking. And this book explains things very well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth buying, June 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Mfc Black Book (Paperback)

If you need to do some simple network communication, this book has a nice chapter and sample app on using CSocket.