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Summary: Superb tutorial
Review: It's been a few years ago that I did quite some programming in plain C. Now I returned to designing software and tried to find a book that would get me up-and-running as quickly as possible: THIS IS THE BOOK !!! If you are new to writing applications under windows in VC++ you will find this book extremely useful! Just in case the author stops by: The book would be even better if there were a few more pages on the real doc-view-apps!
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Summary: Easy to Understand and Informative!
Review: I have been programming C++ for like 2 years but don't know anything about MFC. This book helps me learn MFC. Jones' explanations are really good and there are a lot of screen-shots to support that. Rather than reading through the code, you look at the screen-shot, and you know right away what a program does. The other thing is the book doesn't use AppWizard right away. Jones makes you start from the scratch which gives you the insight look on all MFC classes and data types. But this book doesn't teach C++! You have to know basic C++ and some OOP, or you will feel lost most of the time. If you are new to MFC, go get this book. If you alreay know MFC, this book will be too easy for you. If you don't know C++, this is not your book. I also recommend that you get MS Visual C++ 6.0 so that you could try out all the programs in the book. Keep it up! There are cool Windows applications ahead!
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Summary: Excellent Intro to MFC
Review: I was looking for a book that didn't rely as heavily on the App Wizard as so many do. This book is well-suited for anyone who has enough C++ experience to understand classes, derived classes and the like, and wants to understand MFC better. Jones takes you through a number of exercises, explaining details that help understand much of what's going on behind the scenes. My only complaint is that there are a number of typos in it, and a few minor errors in the code examples. This, however, is more a fault with proofreading than with content; if you can forgive the typos you'll be very satisfied with the book.
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Summary: A very effective introduction
Review: There are lots of books on MFC but this one stands out for its down-to-earth, this-is-what's going-on, this-is-what-you-need-to-know approach. It is a great complement to Prosise's book and with the two of them as guides, the journey will likely be pleasantly smooth.
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: I bought this book because the cursory knowledge of C++ and MFC that I've gotten working around the edges of other people's C++ and MFC code over the last 8 years wasn't enough to allow me to implement an interface to a new piece of technology. I read 20 pages of this book the first night I got it, and the next day immediately applied some of what I had learned. THANK YOU RICHARD JONES! P.S. This book is full of minor typos. If you can't get over the typos, don't buy it.
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Summary: The most important of three you need.
Review: This is an excellent book. It is an introduction, but that doesn't mean it gives little information - it leaves out lots of things you don't need, but there's plenty here. It doesn't leave out important details, and when you need to know something, it isn't hidden. I said "three books". You also need the Prosise book, and maybe(but probably not) one of those crash course books(21 days, 15 minutes, whatever), but this book helped me a lot. It is well written, and follows a good path at a steady pace. The only thing I wish for is that the answers to the problems were included or available on the CD or web. This is not a book on C or C++, but if you have only a little experience programming you won't be stumped. It's also not version-specific. If you use version 1.52 through version 6 of VC++ you'll be fine.
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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: After going through several MFC books, I found this one. It doesn't tell you how to use the Wizard but rather what the wizard does for you. Great fundamentals and good explanation of concepts. This is book perfectly suited for a C or C++ programmer who wants to learn MFC.
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Summary: great book for a beginner
Review: This is an excellent book for a beginner--a beginner to MFC. It teaches you the basics( classes, pointer, ....) if you happen to have forgot them and it teaches you an undestanding of HOW MCF works and HOW to use it.
Most books seem to teach you how to use it, leaving how it works for the unknown, but this book does both. The layout of the book is excellent. 1/2 a page is code and the other 1/2 explains the code, very useful so you do not have to switch pages trying to see what they are talking about.
I really do not have anything to negatively say about this book. I am happy that I found a book that teaches the how and why. Great book for the beginner, and probably a decent book for the intermediate.
Note: It would be a good help, almost a must to have some understanding of function, arrary, memory, containers, classes work before you get this book.
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Summary: programmingglitch
Review: About the book having been written for a previous version of MFC - The console applications in chapters 1 through 3 will run fine after you replace
#include <iostream.h>
with
#include <iostream>
using namespace std; All other 90 plus programs work fine with the exception of 3 programs that use the slider control: Ex07f-sliders, Ex08e-DialogMsgMap, Ex08f_DialogMsgMapIcon. The compilation error in the function OnVScroll() can be fixed by replacing the type CWnd* with CScrollBar*.
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Summary: More than an introduction
Review: If you're looking for an "introduction", I can't say more about the workmanship of this text. This book is unique from the many other startup books that simply repackage the MSDN help. I wish he would write the next one - "intermediate level MFC...".
In a masterfully developed discussion, Jones uses simple console apps in Part1 to explain objects and MFC. In Part2, he goes deeper but uses handcrafted MFC apps instead of relying on the visual tools and wizard, eliminating the black magic. In Part3 he brings in the visual tools to complete the discussion and get into meatier topics. The book is rich with excellent diagrams that adeptly illustrate the subtle connections in windows architecture. The code snippets are well organized and highlighted to show the inter-relationships as well.
If you've been around Windows C++ programming, you know it can be both hardest and easiest programming once you know the tricks . Any book that gets you there quickly is literally worth its weight in gold.
Top marks to Richard M. Jones.
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