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The visual C++ construction kit. A programmer’s resource. Incl. 1 disk. (English) Zbl 0818.68050

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. xv, 333 p. (1994).
The authors consider Microsoft’s Visual C++ development environment as opening a new area in Windows programming. The present book is intended to be an illuminating material to experienced C programmers migrating to C++, to Windows programmers from SDK environment, as well as mastering users and programmers of Visual C++. The primary tool used by the authors to attend their goal is the method of learning-by-example: a plethora of examples cover both essential and advanced topics such as: Introduction to Visual C++ (Ch. 1); The Wizards and App Studio (Ch. 2); Applications, Frames, Documents, and Views (Ch. 3); The Microsoft Foundation Classes (Ch. 4); Keyboards, Cursors, Mice and Menus (Ch. 5 and 6); Toolbars, Status Bars, and Dialog Bars (Ch. 7); Dialog Boxes and Dialog Box Controls (Ch. 8 and 9); Visual Basic Controls (Ch. 10); File I/O (Ch. 11); Serial Port Programming (Ch. 12); Graphics and Text: Fonts, Colors, Icons (Ch. 13 and 14); WinHelp Engine (Ch. 15); Debugging and Developer Help (Ch. 16 and 17); The Version Resource (Ch. 18); Setup (Ch. 19). All the programs in the book are included in the accompanying diskette.
Reviewer: N.Curteanu (Iaşi)

MSC:

68N15 Theory of programming languages
68N25 Theory of operating systems
68N20 Theory of compilers and interpreters
68-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science
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