Good for any seasoned Microsoft Foundation Classes programer who wants to know the inside-out's of this class collection
If you are like me (always wanting to know not just the DO but the HOW of classes in MFC) this book is a must, and even used it was in great shape. It fits perfectly with my library of programmer's references.
Bring your MFC mastery to a new level!
The difference between this book and Programming Windows with MFC is that while the latter provides a complete reference on how to use MFC, it does not cover much what is going inside MFC. You might ask why should care about how MFC works? If you remember the first time you used MFC, you might remember your astonishment about how quick you could have a working decent application in five minutes just by using the MFC wizard but after that joyful moment, you spent frustrating weeks to figure out how to do add this special feature to your program. Lets face it, the documentation coming with MFC does not tell everything you have to know to fully unleash the power of MFC. The only way to truly understand MFC is to dig in the code (For Star Wars fans, Obi-Wan would say "Use the source, Luke") and this is precisely why Microsoft is providing the MFC source code. MFC source code is huge and might be intimidating at first. This is why having a book to help you in the first steps of your exploration is an excellent idea. Consider having this book as a companion for Programming Windows for MFC. However, this book is not for novices. Only buy it, if you consider yourself good with programming MFC.
If you buy it, very interesting discoveries await you! You can see by yourself by looking my MFC tutorials on my website what the knowledge contained in this book has allowed me to do with MFC.
Interesting book for Windows/MFC programming professionals
Not suitable for MFC begginers, but very good and informative book for professionals. It is writen in very good manner - it is easy to read and understand even complex topics
MFC Internals are described in attractive way, so is not boring to read a book.
So, I like a way the books is writen and I like its content.
Great book for MFC.
This book is the best book for MFC and what it does inside. This is not an introductory book and if you are new to MFC you'd be better served by reading Kruglinki's Programming Visual C++.
The best MFC companion
Are you still amazed what's going on behind the scenes? If yes, buy this! It's a great book to enjoy exploration of MFC. Navigate with it and then try yourself. You'll probably find America... I would say, authors have taken a great pain to construct such a good material.
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