MFC Internals: Inside the Microsoft(c) Foundation Class Architecture

by George Shepherd and Scot Wingo

Book Overview

This book is definitely not a rehash of existing documents. It is not a how-to book--it is a how does it work book. --Dean McCrory, MFC Development Lead Finally, a book on MFC that fills the gap... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201407213
• ISBN13: 9780201407211
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

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 topicsMFC 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.

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.

The chapters about OLE/COM are excellent

I bought this book because an reviewer mentioned it has a nice coverage of COM/OLE. After reading these chapters (11 to 15), I think this book explained the topic extremely well. Only these chapters are worth the money many times. I has many books, such as Inside OLE, Inside COM, Inside DCOM, Professional MFC with VC5, essential COM, Programming Windows with MFC. But this book explained OLE in a better way. After I read this book, I can quickly understand related topics in other books.

Excellent MFC Internals discussion

I used this book as my primary study material for the Using Visual C++ w/ MFC MCSD exam and passed on the first try (800+).This book does a great job of describing how MFC works and what the sections are trying to accomplish.

The best book for seeing MFC under the hood

This book is a really cool book for programmers who have had some experience with MFC. The book gives a very thorough explanation of the class library architecture. It explains in depth what all the macros expand into and how everything works. Topics discussed in detail are : 1. Message mapping architecture. 2. Runtime Time Type Information. (How it is implemented in MFC) 3. Doc / View architecture. (This section alone is worth the price of the book. The printing and the print preview section really takes the price.) 4. Serialization. (Yes this book manages to explain how the whole thing works under the wraps.) 5. COM/OLE (This section not only shows how COM/OLE is implemented inside MFC, it makes for independent reading by itself for COM/OLE concepts.) The only shortcoming I have found is that the books does not touch any of the database classes or ODBC stuff. All in all a very good buy.