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Summary: Great reference for stressed MFC programmer
Review: This book is written in a question and answer format, just like a FAQ. Although the content predominantly revolves around documents and views, many other common questions are also answered. Personally, I love the format and the content. I hate having to weed through several huge books to find an answer to a simple question. I loaned out my previous copy, and it wasn't returned. I ended up buying another copy. While this book won't make you a guru, it just might save you an hour of frustration. Since I migrate between operating systems, APIs, and SDKs, I never put in the time to earn the title of MFC Guru, so this book comes in handy, especially when it comes to refreshing my memory, without having to plow through the MFC code. Unfortunately, this book is not all-inclusive, as many questions are left out. The "new" controls are left out entirely. However, even with the omissions, the book will give you a straight answer or point you in the right direction about 90% of the time. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Pretty good book but..
Review: Someone who wrote a review on this book said he likes to know the stats of the people writing reviews, so here: Ag 29, Computer Science Major, graduating shortly, I write a lot of code for school, work, and play. I eat, drink, and sleep code, in all languages. First off, this book should be retitled to: "MFC Document/View Answer Book", because what it really covers: documents, views, and a lot of good GUI tricks and tips. That's not a complaint necessarily- for the project I initially bought this for, I only wanted something that handled document/view architecture and GUI tricks, so this book delivered. It's a great MFC resource and the structure (like an FAQ) is refreshing and easy to follow. I can't give it 5 stars though just because I've got a couple problems with some of the code examples, which seem inaccurate or leave small hidden details out (which you then have to deduce from the code on the CD or figure out yourself). Nothing irks me more than omitted details that, in the end, are very important to what you're trying to convey. I'm not stupid- I can figure it out eventually, but I buy books just so I don't *have* to spend hours researching "how" to do something, or "why" I have to perform some bit of trickery to get the code to compile properly. And I was dissapointed by the lack of abstract information about how to do certain things. A lot of the book is tailored toward specific types of implementations and it's up to you to deduce how to alter things to fit your application. Without some basic, general, foundation knowledge of certain things, it can be difficult to take the concepts in this book and extend them, or alter them to fit your application's specific needs. I guess the author just felt like this book was a starting point, and you could get the rest of the information from other sources (MSDN, etc). It's still a great book though, and if you need to do MFC programming then I'd certainly get this book. So far it's the best MFC book in my library and some of the information is stuff that you're not going to find anywhere else without some considerable searching effort.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Worth every penny and more!
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Summary: Excellent book! Worth buying it...
Review: I was already searching for a long time to find a distinguished book about MFC. Recently, I found 'The MFC Answer Book'. I hesitated to buy it, because I already bought a few books in the past of which I tought they would be of great help for me, but weren't at the end. Nevertheless, I decided to buy the book and at last it was _THE_ book I was looking for. It's a very practical book: a nice set-up, direct to the point, solutions seen from a practical point of view, solutions are not spread around the book but can be found on one location, the book handles almost all common MFC aspects,... In brief: at last! Thanks Eugène for taking up the challenge to write a comprehensive yet very clear book about MFC. I find it even more usefull than the sometimes confusing help in Visual C++ itself! Continue to keep up the good work and I hope there will be a successor of this book in the future that is as good as the one you wrote now!
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Summary: Some pretty good tricks
Review: If you are looking for details about MFC this is NOT the book to buy. If you are looking for some "tricks" well then maybe this will work for you. The book is well enough written but lacks some detail about how the code works. But I am not an expert on MFC. If I could I would add 1/2 star to the 3 I gave.
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Summary: A great FAQ
Review: This book is not all-inclusive, you should get Jeff Prosise's "Programming Windows with MFC" if you are looking for that. Instead, Kain's book is really the answers to the most frequent, irritating, and time-wasting little problems one finds while programming in MFC. This book should not really be necessary, except that MFC is so badly designed that little things that should be easy to do often end being a great waste of time, while the programmers search for the clumsy and roundabout way out. Should be in every MFC programmer's bookshelf.
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Summary: Great collection of answers to common problems...
Review: The MFC Answer Book has a great number of handy tips inside that will benefit the novice to intermediate programmer. These "answers" could be figured out pretty easily, but it is nice to have them all in one reference. All in all it's a good addition to my Windows programming library.
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Summary: Really has very few answers
Review: Based upon 49 reviews, this book has a 5-star rating. Amazing!!! I have a dozen or so MFC books, and this one is one of the most useless to me. A book such as this ("The MFC Answer Book") should be a good reference book. But each time I've looked for an answer to a question, it's not in the book (yesturday, I wanted to look up CString details but there's nothing in there on CStings). The print in this book is LARGE, so the actual amount of content in the book is low.END
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Summary: Must Have
Review: This book is a must have for 90 percent of the MFC programers out there. It does not tell you how to do every thing you may want to do, but it gives you enough information and code to get you started (and thinking). Most books on MFC are rehashes of the MFC on line help, this is not one of them, get it and use it I have not had one regret about my purchase of this book.
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Summary: Excellent walkthrough
Review: I have EVERY bible on MFC. professional mfc, windows withh mfc visual c++ inside but I found this book the most valuable. Instead of bombarding you with jargon and theorie this book can help you learn a lot better than others, for a great deal i do not care about mfc internals casue I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME to learn everything MFC is suppposed to be a library to USE not to completle dissect , sometimes you just have to accept certain things and work wiht them, I wont deny that I just copy and pase a lot from the examples..but even then its easy to see where you are heading and whats actually happening as the source is very good commented, the author even helped me wiht a serious problem.. you wwant somethign else than the usual boring looking mfc stuff..check this one out...
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