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Visual C++5: The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series)

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This is the worst Visual C book I have ever read, As a programmer, it has been so BL**DY USELESS! The thoughts are written in a boring documentary Style ... there for I 100 % do NOT RECOMMEND.

This book mainly covered C/C++. Only a small part of the book covered VC++. The book contains typos and the authors seemed to have left out needed info for the VC++ examples. Maybe the 2nd edition would be better.

This book is good for a programmer wanting to convert C code to C++ code. The writers show many examples of how to do the same program in C and in C++.

It really helped me with cin and cout stuff and formatting.

This book falls far short of teaching the reader how to use Visual C++; In fact, this book has the user hand typing resource files more than developing them through the visual environment. The coding standard is rather poor as this book uses the stone age philosophy of meaningless variable name such as: py, i,j and so forth. In this book the reader is continuously subjected to the same 10 to 12 GDI functions over and over. The authors of this book give the impression that they themselves learned how to use Visual C++ 5.0 about 6 months after they wrote the book.

When I got this book I was so excited because I really needed a solid book on Visual Programming in C++ using MSVC version 5. I picked up the 1000 page book and imagine my disappointment to find 450 pages of C (not C++, not Windows) programming tutorial. Then another 150 pages of OOP tutorial (badly done). Finally, the last 100 pages of the book discusses Wizards, but with less detail than the Scribble tutorial in MSVC. This book in a con-job. Don't buy it.

There's really no meat to the book, they show you an example, then say "that was an example of how to do it." The examples are not even that good, either. Get a different book, or burn your money, don't waste it on this complete piece of rubbish.

This book is really bad. i don't know why they even tried to cover so many subjects in one volume. all they ended up doing was being incomplete and unclear. you can definitely spend your money better elsewhere

The contents of the books are not well organized. Examples and codes are confusing. Not recommended for any one. Too confusing for beginner and not too much offered for advanced programer.

This book should really be titled Learning C/C++. The actual amount of text covering the subject of Visual C++ programming probably only makes up 30% of this book - the rest is on C/C++. The Visual C++ that is covered is very lean. I wouldn't recommend this book as either a complete reference to C/C++ or as an introductory text on Visual C++ programming.

This is an excellent book which starts from the very basics of using the Developer Studio IDE and to the most intricate details of C++. Although, some of the terms used are a little daunting for someone new to this type of programming, it is a really good book for someone learning the language. And don't let the title deceive you, this is far more than a reference book. It teaches you how to develop applications in VC++5 from the ground up. MMMMMarvelous!