Programming Microsoft Visual C++ (With CD) 5th Edition

The industry Bible. Programming Microsoft Visual C++, Fifth edition, is the newest edition of the book that has become the industry's most trusted text (previously published as Inside Visual C++). Newly expanded and updated for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, it offers even more of the detailed, comprehensive coverage that's consistently made this book the best overall explanation of the capabilities of this powerful and complex development tool.

The companion CD-ROM contains valuable sample source code and sample applications developed for the book - to make Programming Microsoft Visual C++, Fifth Edition, one book you'll want to keep close at hand.

Special Features
Important new coverage includes a full discussion of:

• Control development with ATL
• The latest database programming enhancements
• Recent COM improvements Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Visual C++ and MFC for Windows CE

In addition, Programming Microsoft Visual C++, Fifth Edition, gives you authoritative guidance on:

• Fundamentals - event handling, GDI, dialog boxes, memory management, SDI and MDI, printing, and help
• Advanced topics - DIBs, ODBC, and DLLs
• ActiveX - creating document objects and ActiveX controls, COM, Automation, and using wizards and compiler extensions that support COM
• C++ programming for the Internet - Winsock, MFC Winlnet, DHTML, and ISAPI extension programs for Microsoft Internet Information Server

About the Author
David Kruglinski was on the team that originally created Microsoft Visual C++. After completing the fourth edition of his widely selling book, David died in a paragliding accident in eastern Washington in April 1997. George Shepherd and Scot Wingo are principals at Stingray Software, a division of RogueWave Corporation,and coauthors of MFC Internals, published by Addison-Wesley.

Table of Contents

• Introduction

Windows, Visual C++, and Application Framework Fundamentals

• Microsoft Windows and Visual C++
• The Microsoft Foundation Class Library Application Framework

The MFC Library View Class

• Getting Started with AppWizard - Hello, world!
• Basic Event Handling, Mapping Modes, and a Scrolling View
• The Graphics Device Interface, Colors, and Fonts
• The Modal Dialog and Windows Common Controls
• The Modeless Dialog and Windows Common Dialogs
• Using ActiveX Controls
• Internet Explorer 4 Common Controls
• Win32 Memory Management
• Bitmaps
• Windows Message Processing and Multithreaded Programming

The Document-View Architecture

• Menus, Keyboard Accelerators, the Rich Edit Control, and Property Sheets
• Toolbars and Status Bars
• A Reusable Frame Window Base Class
• Separating the Document from Its View
• Reading and Writing Documents - SDI Applications
• Reading and Writing Documents - MDI Applications
• Printing and Print Preview
• Splitter Windows and Multiple Views
• Context-Sensitive Help
• Dynamic Link Libraries
• MFC Programs Without Document or View Classes

Active X: Com, Automation, and Ole

• The Component Object Model
• Automation
• Uniform Data Transfer - Clipboard Transfer and OLE Drag and Drop
• Structured Storage
• OLE Embedded Components and Containers
• Introducing the Active Template Library
• ATL and ActiveX Controls849Pt. VDatabase Management
• Database Management with Microsoft ODBC
• Database Management with Microsoft Data Access Objects
• The OLE DB Templates

Programming for the Internet

• TCP/IP, Winsock, and WinInet
• Programming the Microsoft Internet Information Server
• ActiveX Document Servers and the Internet
• Introducing Dynamic HTML
• Visual C++ for Windows
• App. A Message Map Functions in the Microsoft Foundation Class Library
• App. B MFC Library Runtime Class Identification and Dynamic Object Creation
• Index