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Summary: Questions for a well rounded application are not included
Review: The one question I came searching for answers on was about pop up help and HTML help API in property sheets ... if the answer is here I couldn't find it.
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Summary: One of the best, a must read for serious developers.
Review: The "MFC Answer Book" is an excellent book that explainshow to implement advanced features that you find in many Windowsapplications. The author does not just give you code to implement the features, but clearly explains why and how the code works. Most importantly, he explains many important concepts of the MFC application framework. For example, he gives an excellent explanation of the Document/View architecture. Within this discussion, he explains how to code a variety of different user-interfaces that take advantage of the Document/View architecture. There is also a section that explains how to use frames within your application in detail. When explaining an advanced concept, the author shows how it relates to the MFC architecture by highlighting and explaining important code fragments from the MFC implementation. This book doesn't waste much time explaining how to use tools like the ClassWizard or Application Wizard. These are topics covered in less advanced books. This book concentrates on what is important, and helps you understand the code that these tools generate. After becoming very proficient in programming Windows using Visual Basic, I wanted to learn Windows programming using C++ and MFC since it is a more expressive language. I have read about 5 books on MFC programming from cover to cover. Out of the books I have read, I have found this to be one of the best. If you are new at Windows programming using C++ and MFC, I would suggest reading a more basic book first. A less advanced book will teach you the topics you need to understand some of more advanced topics discussed in this book. Out of all the books I have read, I have found this book to be the best organized. Each topic is just a couple pages long which makes for nice reading. Also, each section comes with source code examples that demonstrate the topic being discussed. I found that all the code examples worked and the book was very accurately written. In summary, this is an excellent book to purchase when you want to learn the behavior of the MFC architecture that makes your programs run. It also explains how to implement many neat features that you find in many Windows applications.
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Summary: Oki book
Review: This book is awesome, it got a nice layout, easy to read, good examples. My only problem which is a big one... I want MORE!!! There are alot more information and question that could be answered in a similar way, please please MORE!
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Summary: A valuable resource for new or experienced programmers.
Review: I have been developing applications in Visual C++ since Version 1.0 -- I've been at it for a while. This book enhanced my skills measurably. I have never been one who could learn from mindlessly copying someone else's code, and all too many books provide nothing much more than that. This book provides much more: Mr. Kain not only shows you what to do, he then explains why it needs to be done that way. His writing is a joy to read; clear and very comprehensible. I had problems adapting one of his MDI examples to an SDI application, so I contacted the author at the email address provided in the book. Mr Kain responded very promptly, and was really helpful in resolving my problem. If Amazon allowed six stars....
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Summary: An Important information, please!
Review: Hello All, For all excited about this book and those planning to buy one, I just wish to humbly bring this information to your notice. A copyright notice at the last page reads: The contents of the CD-ROM are intended for PERSONAL USE ONLY. In case of code reuse in a commercial application, the following credits line must be included: Segments of the code (C) 1998 Addison-Wesley Longman and Eugene Kain. It does state where to include the line, it may be the "About..." dialog. Please make sure you know where you are going?
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Summary: Very Useful
Review: I found this book extremely useful, and it helped me solve numerous ammounts of problems. The language is simple, and straight to the point. The sample source code is very well organised. I refer to it very frequently!
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Summary: Save me HOURS from digging the MFC Source
Review: This book is definitely an undispensible reference. Sometimes MFC online documentation explanation is too brief. Until I bought this book, I had been digging the MFC source files to know more on the "under-hood" stuffs. This book had saved my time by revealing some inner functionality of MFC. But as for a beginner who knows null about MFC. I don't quite recommend this book. This book didn't explain anything about the basic MFC things, like handling message maps, etc. But this books is definitely come in handy once you know all those basic stuffs. WELL DONE EUGENE!! Please write more MFC FAQ. Perhaps covers other advanced aspect such as multithreading, DLL, OLE, etc. Once again, great job, Eugene!! Keep it up!
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Summary: Great book...write us a "sequel", Eugene!
Review: Every other reviewer pretty much said it all. This book uses a unique formula that presents a list of questions and directs you to the answers. Each answer gives a brief explanation of how to do something, followed by step-by-step directions to get the job done quickly. You don't have to read a whole book to learn how to enhance your applications. I had a few comments for the author and e-mailed him at the address given in the book. His reply came within a day or two...it was nice to see that he cared enough about my opinion to reply! I have many more questions, Eugene. How about "More MFC Answers"?
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Summary: Excellent addition to Jeff Prosise's introduction to MFC
Review: I got an excellent introduction to MFC by Jeff Prosise (Programming Win95 with MFC), and I solved nearly all my problems with the help of this book. When I first came across Eugene Kain's book I thought it would only be of little help to me, because I had already solved most of the FAQs on my own. But some FAQs, such as FAQ 4.12 (How do I implement the UPDATE_UI mechanism in dialog boxes?), or FAQ 6.3 (How do I dock a control bar to let it appear in the same band as another bar?) appealed to me because I had already encountered both problems and could not find any solution for them. When I digged deeper in "The MFC Answer Book" I found several other solutions which were far better than my own techniques. I also appreciate the proper English Style which makes the book easier to understand for a foreign reader like me. In summary, I recommend Eugene Kain's book for every MFC developer as an excellent addition to Jeff Prosise's introduction, and it's the book which I'd like to have held earlier in my hands when I started learning MFC. Konrad Cremer, Munich (Germany)
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Summary: Great book--Cuts to the chase!
Review: One of the best programming books I have ever owned. Reduces the research time tremendously and allows the programmer to focus on getting task done.
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