Professional MFC with VC++ 5 Programming - Softcover

Blaszczak, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861000146 ISBN 13: 9781861000149

Publisher: WROX Press Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This book focuses on the use of the Microsoft Foundation Classes to develop software. Of course, 'software' is a very broad term - some readers are doubtless interested in writing low-level technical applications that might not even have a user interface, while others will be interested in coding form-oriented applications that do little more the data validation and formatting before they hand the information off to a database server.

While you won't be writing a database server, you will write a few utilities, some DLLs, an ActiveX control and even an OLE document server, as well as examining Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Data Access Objects (DAO) strategies. At the very end of the book, we look at what MFC provides to make programming for the Internet easier.

This book will give a detailed discussion of the majority of classes present in Microsoft's application framework library. While it will point out what parameters are required for the member functions of those classes, it will concentrate more on describing what utility the classes really provide. It should be obvious that a class named CWnd will probably provide the functionality inherent in a window, but it may not be obvious when some class derivatives are more appropriate than others, exactly how objects of that class are created and destroyed, or what interaction that class has with others in the framework.

We should say that there are a few things this book doesn't do. It isn't an exercise in marketing hype, because although Mike works for Microsoft, and while he may be tremendously excited about the group's product, he doesn't intend to gloss over issues that are problems, or be shy about showing workarounds that are faster than the way things were intended to be.

It does not beat the glossy features of Visual C++ to death. Those tremendous facilities are for you to discover. Instead, the book discusses the details that come up when your work with the Visual C++ AppWizards is complete: the real code that will make your program the best selling application, the fastest utility, or the most flexible embedded object in town.

Key ingredients:
Microsoft Developer Studio and the Wizards unraveled.
Comprehensive explanation of MFC's document/view architecture
Learn how to tweak your applications to perfection
MFC support for the Windows common controls described in full
Discover how to write safe, secure, multithreaded applications
Compound document servers and containers explained
Find out how to program ActiveX controls and control containers
Use MFC to implement Internet client and server functionality

About this title

From the Publisher

The book is written by Mike Blaszczak, a leading member of the MFC development team and uniquely qualified to provide insight into the underlying structure of the class library. It represents the most comprehensive examination of programming techniques within and while using MFC.

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 mikeblas@msn.com. Mail sent care of The Goose Pub and Eatery may be answered but is not guaranteed to reach the author.

Edition details

• Publisher: WROX Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861000146
• ISBN 13: 9781861000149
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1072