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Windows® 98 Programming Bible

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This book is almost totally useless unless you only want to create small-scale simple MFC applications in Visual C++. That's an extremely narrow market. I'll admit, if it fits you, you probably won't complain, but i was quite disappointed with the lack of usefulness and living up to it's cover. It says it is a complete guide to windows 98, etc. but it doesn't handle any true win32, just mfc. I think if they renamed it the Visual C++ MFC Bible, i could take it more seriously. As it is, it was very misleading to me and is just collecting dust on my shelf.

I've been using Visual C++ since version 1.0 for developing user interfaces/instrument control software for my companies line of biochemical research instrumentation and just want you to know that I've found the your "Windows 98 Programming Bible" to the the most useful book I've discovered so far. I especially appreciate the inclusion of the CSerial class and the comprensible discussion of multi threading. It is a great book! Thanks for writing it!

As a new programmer to MFC I found that this book did not have enough explanation of the classes and options. Also I found that the book relies too much on the App Wizard in Visual C++. I felt that using the App Wizard as a new programmer only created more questions and those questions weren't explained in this book. One good thing is that this book does cover a lot of topics that others do not.

I get this book as a free gift. In fact, I think there are not much new topics. But there are really some interesting topics.

So if you want to know how to program a MFC program in Windows'98. It is good. And if you want to get some interesting topics such as Data Encryption. You can buy it too. But don't expect it have many such topics.