Professional MFC with Visual C++ 6

The MFC is a library that provides a collection of C++ classes, taking the drudgery out of writing software for Windows. The classes are targeted at the features an application needs - such as status bars, the implementations required for multiple document windows, and support for context-sensitive help - which means that using MFC could save coding time which can be used to implement other features in an application. This book gives a detailed discussion of the majority of classes present in Microsoft's application framework library, and the tools provided by Visual C++ 6. Throughout the book, the reader learns how all of the features in the environment come together with the features of MFC, giving the power to develop your application.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1: The Microsoft Visual Studio Chapter 2: The Wizards and the Gallery Chapter 3: The Application Architecture Hierarchy Chapter 4: The Document/View Architecture Chapter 5: Using Dialogs and Controls in MFC Chapter 6: User Interface Issues Chapter 7: Advanced User Interface Programming Chapter 8: Using the Windows Common Controls Chapter 9: Utility and Exception Classes Chapter 10: Writing Multithreaded Applications with MFC Chapter 11: Creating Dynamic Link Libraries Chapter 12: Writing Data Access Applications Chapter 13: Writing OLE Containers Chapter 14: Writing OLE Servers Chapter 15: ActiveX Controls Chapter 16: ActiveX Control Containers Chapter 17: Internet Client Programming Chapter 18: Internet Server Programming Appendix A: Installing Visual C++ Appendix B: International Programming Appendix C: Writing Console Applications Appendix D: The Foundation Classes Headers and Libraries Appendix E: A History of MFC Appendix F: Integrating ATL and MFC

About the Author :
Mike Blaszczak lobbied his high-school principle until he was allowed to graduate six months early. In 1988, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut and attended the University of Hartford part-time. Disgruntled by the lack of an advanced placement curriculum at the school, he quit taking classes and concentrated on working hard and making money. After working - and traveling extensively - for a small consulting firm in Blooomfield, Connecticut, he took a position in Microsoft's Consulting Services in March of 1992. In November of 1993, Mike joined the development team, working on the Microsoft Foundation Classes in Redmond, Washington. Mike accepted a promotion (which is Latin for 'lateral move') to Program Manager and was, for a time, responsible for managing the development, documentation and delivery of the Microsoft Foundation Classes and the C Run-time Libraries. Mike decided that playing with cards was much more fun than playing with schedules, so he laterally removed himself back to the development team. Mike has previously been published in Byte Magazine, Microsoft Systems Journal, Computer Buyer's World Magazine and in books published by Que and Microsoft Press. Mike does presentations wherever they'll invite him back. He likes referring to himself in third-person. Mike is currently responsible for telling all of his friends about the rules in ice hockey, saving up money to buy another vowel for his last name, getting nicer strings for his bass guitar and completing a variety of design and development tasks relating to MFC. You can write to Mike at 76360,157 on CompuServe. He also answers Internet mail at mikeblas@msn.com. Mail sent care of The Goose Pub and Eatery may be answered but is not guaranteed to reach the author.