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Summary: The CD-ROM contains a virus
Review: I was disappointed to learn that a publisher like Prentice Hall would ship a book without scanning the CD-ROM for viruses. The book content looks very good but it is not worth buying a book, installing the CD-ROM only later to find it trashed your computer. Thank goodness my scanning software caught it in time. Granted, Prentice Hall will exchange the CD-ROM for a new one, but they should have mentioned that in their statements here at Amazon.
Rating:
Summary: The CD-ROM contains a virus
Review: I was disappointed to learn that a publisher like Prentice Hall would ship a book without scanning the CD-ROM for viruses. The book content looks very good but it is not worth buying a book, installing the CD-ROM only later to find it trashed your computer. Thank goodness my scanning software caught it in time. Granted, Prentice Hall will exchange the CD-ROM for a new one, but they should have mentioned that in their statements here at Amazon.
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Summary: Book for people moving from unix/x-windows to MFC
Review: This is a exteremly good book. I liked his approach of explaining every thing from
DOS and unix perspective and connecting to Win32 and MFC. I am a dos and x-windows
programmer. I did not got a chance to working in any win32 programming. Now like
most of others forced into the wintel world. This book gives excellent insight of
win32 and MFC. The examples are very good. Another interesting thing is his approach to the class wizard. I have tried to use
class wizard before reading the book. I hated class wizard. I like to
know the every line in my program. I would prefer to type it myself. This book starts
with the concept of typing the code and slowing moves into class wizard. This books
explains want exactly class wizard does. It made me really comfortable with class wizard.
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Summary: Clean, clear, to the point. It saved me time.
Review: Very happy with this book. If you're a multi-platform professional who is looking to learn, Know and deliver product using MFC in the least amount of time, this is the ticket. Pros: -Good, "show me" examples. Nothing left out. -Organizes and enhances, not repeats, the VC++ documentation -Covers both MFC -AND- Visual Studio's app tools, which are tightly intertwined. - Covers a lot of 'professional' techniques needed to ship real product, like tweaking stock classes by self-drawing, etc. Cons: - Wish it were longer. - The author constantly spews about how Wonderful MFC is. Every fifth sentence talks about how great, easy, powerful, simple, etc the facet of MFC being discussed is. Either the author's never used another framework before, or he's Bill's love slave. Now that the book's done, send him back over to Sales. Please. That said, it's still a fine book.
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Summary: Book for people moving from unix/x-windows to MFC
Review: Very happy with this book. If you're a multi-platform professional who is looking to learn, Know and deliver product using MFC in the least amount of time, this is the ticket. Pros: -Good, "show me" examples. Nothing left out. -Organizes and enhances, not repeats, the VC++ documentation -Covers both MFC -AND- Visual Studio's app tools, which are tightly intertwined. - Covers a lot of 'professional' techniques needed to ship real product, like tweaking stock classes by self-drawing, etc. Cons: - Wish it were longer. - The author constantly spews about how Wonderful MFC is. Every fifth sentence talks about how great, easy, powerful, simple, etc the facet of MFC being discussed is. Either the author's never used another framework before, or he's Bill's love slave. Now that the book's done, send him back over to Sales. Please. That said, it's still a fine book.
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