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Summary: One useful solution makes it worth
Review: This book is a collection of 'recipes'. I had to implement something and the 'recipe' described very clearly how to do it. It saved me a lot of time. If you see something that applies to your problems, get the book and get it done in 1/2 hour instead of 1 or 2 days. Just a catch, implement the idea and not the exact source code (it is copyrighted)
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Summary: Ever wondered how to do this with MFC
Review: Audience: Intermediate and above.Chapter 0 - Terminology and Conventions Chapter 1 - Document/View Architecture Backgrounder Chapter 2 - Documents and Document Templates - Managing Document Templates - Managing Documents - Managing the Recent Files list (MRU) - Miscellaneous Items Chapter 3 - Views and Frame Windows - General Topics - Opening and Closing Views and Frame Windows - Managing Sizes and Positions - Managing Caption, Icons, Cursors, and Backgrounds - Form Views - Splitter Windows - Switching Views - Miscellaneous Items Chapter 4 - Dialog Boxes - General Topics - Managing Controls in a Dialog Box Chapter 5 - Property Sheet - General Topics - Managing Tabs - Embedding Property Sheets Chapter 6 - Toolbars and Status Bars - Toolbars - Status Bars - General Control Bar Topic Chapter 7 - Menus Chapter 8 - Printing and Print Preview Appendix A - Utility Functions and Classes This book is not about teaching MFC basics or fundamentals, it's all about hints and tricks that answers the question ... have you ever wondered how to do this in MFC? I sat down over the week-end for about several hours looking though the book and found it to be very helpful. It doesn't bog you down with large sample code, but it gives you snippets of code that just goes straight to the point.. Be aware this book is not for beginners, but you don't have to be an expert on MFC to understand this book either. This is definitely a keeper for me and I suspect that some time in the future will come in handy as a good reference book.
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Summary: One Great MFC Book!
Review: Repeat after me: "So thats how you do it! " "I didn't know that you could do that! " "This is neat! " "Wow, this is great! " "Now I know how! " This is what I was saying while reading this great MFC book! This is a 'must have' for your MFC programming reference library.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I can highly recommend this book to everyone. This is definitely the way to go - just look up your question and turn to the answer page. It couldn't be easier. This book can save you days in searching for an answer to a problem. You won't only find the answer, but also an explanation of what the code actually does. This book is not a classroom book, but is designed for real-world programmers to get results fast, real fast. I only wish I had had this book when I started programming in MFC, I expect it could have saved me months of frustration. All in all, an excellent book, but I hope that the 670-or-so pages will increase in the near future, perhaps divided into different volumes, I want more...
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Summary: Should be in every MFC programmer's library
Review: I now own four Visual C++ books, and after a year or so of programming with MFC, this is often the book I turn to first. When you've used MFC for a while, you realize that if your application fits exactly into the mold forseen by the MFC programmers, your job is a snap. But I've never had an application quite like that. There is always something that has to be different from the straight-and-narrow path. This book is the first line of defence for how to deal with those tweaks. Many of the questions that this book answers cannot be answered by reading Microsoft's documentation (this is not particularly a slam at Microsoft: the system is just too huge to document everything to the last detail), and the only real way to answer them is to read the source code for MFC. Luckily for us, Eugene Kain has done this. A great feature of the book is that he gives both cookbook recipes to achieve a required tweak, AND an explanation of the relevant source code, so that you gain an understanding of how you might do something similar-but-not-quite-the-same. My only complaint is that I want volume II, volume III, ...! I recommend this book to all the (Unix background) programmers in my center that are starting to use Visual C++.
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Summary: Good..but not for beginners
Review: This book is good for seasoned MFC programmers, but it isn't appropiate for beginners. There are good examples, really good to solve some real world situations, but if you want to learn MFC, this is not the book. I'm not dissapointed but neither satisfied.
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Summary: Great book for experienced MFC programmers
Review: This book is a great reference book for programmers who know the basics of MFC programming. This book is not for MFC beginners! My AP Computer Science project went from an average application to a professional piece of work because of the information contained in this book. Contains good information about multiple aspects of MFC programming. This is by far the best MFC book I have read.
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Summary: The Rosetta Stone to MFC programming
Review: Book does a superb job of: - explaining 'how to do it in MFC' with real useful working example snippets. - shedding light on MFC internally to allow building intuitive approaches to using it. For me this was the clincher. Provides incredible insights on how MFC operates by using using pseudo-code. Code is easy to follow and well documented. An absolute must compendium to MFC programming.
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Summary: A great book for those who need some tricks!
Review: I found this book to be great. I'm not sure if I agree that it's the best book for novices of Visual C++. I suggest The Visual C++ Programming Blue Book (ISBN: 1576103242) for that. However, once you have it down, this is a great book for learning different ways of doing things and it shows you many cool tricks with MFC! I found this book to have great examples that I could use or slightly modify to work just the way I want. This is a -must have- for any serious MFC programmer that uses VC++.
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Summary: Am I dreaming ? Eventually THE book for novices !!
Review: Eugene Kain is indeed someone who understands the needs of a novice. He knows the questions someone who starts using MFC, asks himself. I'm already looking forward to the successor.
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