Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6 [Hardcover]

Mike Blaszczak (Author)

Book Description

Series: Professional | Publication Date: December 1999

The MFC is a class library that provides a collection of C++ classes, taking the drudgery out of writing software for Windows. The classes are targeted at the features your application needs - such as status bars, the implementations required for multiple document windows, and support for context-sensitive help - which means that using MFC saves you coding time which you can use to implement other features in your application.
This book will give a detailed discussion of the majority of classes present in Microsoft's application framework library, and the tools provided by Visual C++ 6. Throughout the book, you will learn how all of the features in the environment come together with the features of MFC, giving you tremendous power to develop your application.

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From the Publisher

"Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6" is a revised version of "Professional MFC with Visual C++ 5". It covers Visual C++ 6 and MFC 6, including the new features and updates of these latest versions.
This book is for professional developers with a desire to get under the covers of the Microsoft Foundation Classes to find out why Microsoft implemented things the way they did. A good grasp of C++ and some Windows programming knowledge are assumed.

About the Author

Mike Blaszczak lobbied his high-school principle until he was allowed to graduate six months early. In 1988, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut and attended the University of Hartford part-time. Disgruntled by the lack of an advanced placement curriculum at the school, he quit taking classes and concentrated on working hard and making money. After working - and traveling extensively - for a small consulting firm in Blooomfield, Connecticut, he took a position in Microsoft's Consulting Services in March of 1992. In November of 1993, Mike joined the development team, working on the Microsoft Foundation Classes in Redmond, Washington. Mike accepted a promotion (which is Latin for 'lateral move') to Program Manager and was, for a time, responsible for managing the development, documentation and delivery of the Microsoft Foundation Classes and the C Run-time Libraries. Mike decided that playing with cards was much more fun than playing with schedules, so he laterally removed himself back to the development team. Mike has previously been published in Byte Magazine, Microsoft Systems Journal, Computer Buyer's World Magazine and in books published by Que and Microsoft Press. Mike does presentations wherever they'll invite him back. He likes referring to himself in third-person.
Mike is currently responsible for telling all of his friends about the rules in ice hockey, saving up money to buy another vowel for his last name, getting nicer strings for his bass guitar and completing a variety of design and development tasks relating to MFC.
You can write to Mike at 76360,157 on CompuServe. He also answers Internet mail at [e-mail]. Mail sent care of The Goose Pub and Eatery may be answered but is not guaranteed to reach the author.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1248 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 4th edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861000154
• ISBN-13: 978-1861000156
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 2.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,660,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book is great!!!, October 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6 (Hardcover)

I have read about half of the VC++ 5 version of the book and now switched to the newer edition. The material he covers is both usefull and advanced. To this date i haven't found a better book on MFC (some win32api) that will cover subjects as much as Blaszczak does. If you'll read his book and cross reference MSDN, and write the code at the same time, you'll literally master MFC development. Usefull as a reference for variety of MFC topics. Absolutely the best deal you can get if you're learning MFC. But, if you have previous edition, you won't get much with the new one.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What do people really want from a book?, March 30, 2000

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This review is from: Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6 (Hardcover)

Yes, it's true that this books is much like its predecessor, but then again; so is Visual C++. This a not a "how to" book, but a reference. Some subjects are covered very well, while some are covered somewhat poorly. On the whole, it's a good source of information. Again, it's not very useful as a tutorial, but I don't think it was written for that purpose. This book is the first place I go for "information", often not the last; but a good place to start. I don't know exactly what is different from the last release. I don't have time to do a comparison, so I'm glad that Mr. Blaszczak took the time to update his book with those changes. There is "nothing" more frustrating than to have unexpected behavior, only to find out it's the result of using something in an outdated manner.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An extensive resource that fills a lot of holes, May 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6 (Hardcover)

Have had this book for about 3-4 months and find myself referring to it more and more. The DevNet CD's have 1.8 Gig of information, and I have a half dozen other MFC books, but I often find for technical issues that this book is the only source that covers the finer details that are the actual cause of the problem.