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Summary: A necessity
Review: Online help is fine but there are effective limits to its usefullness. It can quickly become a maze in which you get lost and of course you have to be at the computer to use it. After dithering around I decided to buy the Visual C++ 6.0 Reference Library and it's a treasure. Yes, it is essentially what is in the MSDN library but the books are so much easier to use. You can quickly target and access just what you need to know and the Language Reference organizes that specific type of information you need to refer to often, such as variable specs and accuracy ranges. This is a worthwhile buy if you're serious about programming Visual C++, almost a necessity.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book offers a complete reference to Visual C++ 6.0, it's for the intermediate to advanced level developer. Well written although personally I consider that the Inprise tool C++ Builder 3 is a better choice, because it is really visual.
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Summary: Review For Volume 4: Run-Time Library Reference
Review: This is the first book I read out of the volume set (5 books total), and why? Because it is an excellent, and well indexed resource on C/C++ reference. Here, let me give you a quick run down on a few items that this volume has. 1) Buffer Manipulation and Memory Allocation. (can be useful when working with array). 2) Data Conversion core subroutines. (they are like the abc of programming if you ask me.) 3) Directory and file Handling routines. (quick solution to Windows directory) 4) Stream I/O and low I/O. (very detailed topic on stream) 5) Searching and Sorting. (qsort, bsearch, ...there if you needed) 6) String Manipulation. (very, very complete listing of string functions) 7) Time Managment routines. (you will use these guys sooner or later) If you looking for a C/C++ reference, I highly recommend this volume. I can't recommend the entire set because I haven't finish reading them yet. Anyway, I hope this help.
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Summary: Review For Volume 4: Run-Time Library Reference
Review: This is the first book I read out of the volume set (5 books total), and why? Because it is an excellent, and well indexed resource on C/C++ reference. Here, let me give you a quick run down on a few items that this volume has. 1) Buffer Manipulation and Memory Allocation. (can be useful when working with array). 2) Data Conversion core subroutines. (they are like the abc of programming if you ask me.) 3) Directory and file Handling routines. (quick solution to Windows directory) 4) Stream I/O and low I/O. (very detailed topic on stream) 5) Searching and Sorting. (qsort, bsearch, ...there if you needed) 6) String Manipulation. (very, very complete listing of string functions) 7) Time Managment routines. (you will use these guys sooner or later) If you looking for a C/C++ reference, I highly recommend this volume. I can't recommend the entire set because I haven't finish reading them yet. Anyway, I hope this help.
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