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Summary: Developers wanting to Master VC++ should buy this book
Review: A brilliant book that every seasoned Windows C++ professional developer must read.Firstly, I must take the time to correct the first set of amateurs that wrote bad reviews about this book. THE BOOK IS TO BE USED BY PEOPLE WHO ALREADY WHO KNOW SOME VC++ and want to get prepare to pass the 70-015 exam. Microsoft Visual C++ is probably the worlds greatest development environment for RAD development for the Windows environment and only the true gurus of industry can prove that they have what it takes to tackle this exam. Anyone expecting to tackle the more advance elements of windows programming from a C++ perspective should definitely add this book to their reference collection. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ANY VISUAL C++ DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. There are several other books on the market that that will run you through the topics that will aid you to becoming a competent VC++ developer. As a starting point, I recommend "Visual C++ 6: The complete reference" , "C++: The complete reference" , and "programming applications for Windows" and that's just for starters. BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU KNOW SOME VISUAL C++ (v6) and want master more advance topics. So far I have read the chapters covering topics on COM, DCOM, Document View Architecture, MSMQ, ADO, Sockets, Data Access, and ActiveX and that is not half of the advance topics that are actually covered by this text and I believe that they have been covered brilliantly. ONLY OWN THIS BOOK IF YOU WANT TO INCREASE YOUR VISUAL C++ KNOWLEDGE.
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Summary: Trivial
Review: The book is extremely trivial and doesn't give you in-depth & thoroughly coverage of any of its topics. A lot of material is monotonous & repetitive and the author doesn't provide comprehensive clarification of some distinctive and important terms...In general, this book is completely waste of time and money...
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Summary: A complete waste of money!
Review: This has got to be the BIGGEST rip off of all time. It is quite an achievement to write a 750 page book that contains NO USEFUL INFORMATION whatsoever. A full useless pages here, a few pages copied from the MSDN guide there, and very quickly we have a book full of useless information. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! The explanations of COM, ATL etc. are so short that, unless you already understand them this book will not help you and if you do already understand them you don't need this book. In either case the book is worthless when it comes to these topics. The authors have clearly looked for every opportunity to increase the size of the book without considering the worthiness of the content. We have 4 pages of installation instructions for programs that do not come with the book anyway. Each of these programs (Windows NT) will come with their own set of instructions so these are a waste of space. The chapter (10-20 pages) on the Document/view architecture, printing etc in MFC is an EXACT copy of what comes with the MSDN CD's. If you don't have these CD's it is all available at Microsoft's website. The authors even go so far as to copy their own work on numerous occasions, e.g. the chapter summaries. These 1 page summaries usually consist of a word-for-word copy of what was written two pages ago. Again this is a geat way to make a thick (and expensive) book. Another example; Using Spy++. I am not a complete idiot and neither are the other people who read this book. Anybody who uses a computer can see what Spy++ offers simply by running the program. What we need are specific examples of when this utility is useful; maybe a test exercise for a program that is not working properly that we need to use Spy++ for in order to find the problem and fix. I have plenty of other examples of why this book is a BAD buy. If you want to pass the exam get a good book on MFC and another one on ATL, read the MSDN info. and read Inside OLE that comes with it. This way you will learn ATL, COM, MFC and learn how to write and distribute applications using Visual C++.
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Summary: Trivial
Review: When I 1st started reading and studying this book, I thought it was great. Then I realized that I thought this only because it covered areas I was not familiar with. When I got to areas I WAS familiar with, I realized that the explanations were hard to follow and perfunctory compared to other books I had read on the same subjects. The EXAM CRAM series is much more readable and in-depth. The coverage of IUnknown, IDispatch, ATL and COM in general are hard to follow and too advanced for beginners. The accompanied CD is missing files required to compile and run the examples. All in all, it still won't hurt to have it as a reference once you do learn the basics elsewhere.
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Summary: At 1st glance great....looks are deceiving
Review: When I 1st started reading and studying this book, I thought it was great. Then I realized that I thought this only because it covered areas I was not familiar with. When I got to areas I WAS familiar with, I realized that the explanations were hard to follow and perfunctory compared to other books I had read on the same subjects. The EXAM CRAM series is much more readable and in-depth. The coverage of IUnknown, IDispatch, ATL and COM in general are hard to follow and too advanced for beginners. The accompanied CD is missing files required to compile and run the examples. All in all, it still won't hurt to have it as a reference once you do learn the basics elsewhere.
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