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Summary: Great Developer Studio Tutorial
Review: As an experienced programmer who used only Borland tools before, I was somewhat confused when my employer switched over to Visual C++. The online help provided with the Microsoft Developer Studio was very disjointed, and did not answer the questions I had about setting up projects, compiler optimization and use of the Wizards. Some of these features are intuitive, others are not. This book got me up and running in a very short time, with minimal pitfalls. This is the book that Microsoft should have included with the Developer Studio, but didn't. I hate that I had to go out and purchase it on my own, but it is a great reference tool for those who are new to the IDE.
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Summary: What a waste
Review: Don't waste your time. This book is so inefficient that, after reading pages and pages, you still wouldn't know where to start. The author kept reporting what Visual C++ can do and failed to show the basic steps in creating or managing a project.
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Summary: edit resource and source code when we're delete menu resourc
Review: edit resource and source code when we're delete menu resource it has error,How we're delete it?
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Summary: Not for Programming. It explains how to use the compiler.
Review: For some reason, looking at the title, I thought this book would be about programming, for programmers. Instead it's about using a programs interface. This book need a new title. Like "How to Use Visual C++ 6.0", or "How to get started with Visual C++ 6.0". Not much of a programming book.
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Summary: Lousy book
Review: I tried for a week to use this book to teach myself Visual C++. I was having a really unpleasant experience.Finally, out of frustration, I switched to "Inside Visual C++" by David Kruglinski. I have enjoyed the using this book.
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Summary: OK for a limited audience
Review: If you are an experienced C++ programmer with extensive knowledge of the Win32 API, MFC, ATL and COM and you somehow obtained this knowledge without using any of the recent previous versions of Visual C++, this book is for you. Most of the information about the IDE is very basic and similar to previous versions of Visual C++, but the examples are fairly complex with little or no explanations.
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Summary: Good manual for experienced Win32 programmers!
Review: In order to prevent more novice programmers from buying this book, I want to include a quote from the first sentence of the introduction: "This book is about Visual C++. Not the C++ language, not the MFC library, just Visual C++ itself." That's very straightforward and pretty accurate in terms of establishing expectations for this book. Visual C++ is a programming tool, not a language, and this book will help you learn how to use the tool to your highest benefit. It is -- as the title implies -- a guide for programming with Visual C++. My recommendation is: don't buy this book if you aren't familiar with the following: C++, Win32 API, Microsoft Foundation Class library, Component Object Model, Active Template Library, and Microsoft's software development paradigm. If you are familiar with the above material, and you've programmed Win32 applications with C++, MFC, COM, or ATL the hard way, this book can show you how to do it the easy way. Very good reference for customizing Visual C++ and using it to reduce the amount of time it takes you to code your software.
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Summary: Good manual for experienced Win32 programmers!
Review: In order to prevent more novice programmers from buying this book, I want to include a quote from the first sentence of the introduction: "This book is about Visual C++. Not the C++ language, not the MFC library, just Visual C++ itself." That's very straightforward and pretty accurate in terms of establishing expectations for this book. Visual C++ is a programming tool, not a language, and this book will help you learn how to use the tool to your highest benefit. It is -- as the title implies -- a guide for programming with Visual C++. My recommendation is: don't buy this book if you aren't familiar with the following: C++, Win32 API, Microsoft Foundation Class library, Component Object Model, Active Template Library, and Microsoft's software development paradigm. If you are familiar with the above material, and you've programmed Win32 applications with C++, MFC, COM, or ATL the hard way, this book can show you how to do it the easy way. Very good reference for customizing Visual C++ and using it to reduce the amount of time it takes you to code your software.
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Summary: Too much emphasis on simple tasks, too shallow.
Review: It has a comprehensive description of what menues and buttons you must type in order to use any function but it doesn't explain useful things like how to work with dependencies (with projects). Typical of Microsoft. The book is intented to be for intermediate programmers, but explains tasks too simple even for amateurs and at the same time assumes that you understand complex things (for advanced users).
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Summary: Structureless manual on the Visual C++ interface
Review: It is difficult to understand who could have use of this book. For those who master the programming interface of Visual C++ it is unnecessary, and for those who want to learn it, the book is too unstructured and confusing. The titel points to programmers, but nowhere the word "algorithm" appears. The lack of algorithmic programming structure is also reflected in the general structure (or lack of) of the book. As an example, toolbars are introduced before dialog boxes and the Class Wizard is explained too late. The book gives examples with detailed solutions with support of the attached CD-ROM, but no problems and exercises are found. I looked for a book to recommend my students on the Visual C++ interface, but this book is actually not a text book, but a sorts incomplete manual.
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