Special Edition Using Visual C++6

by Kate Gregory

Book Overview

Special Edition Using Visual C++ 6 focuses on making you productive with Visual C++ as quickly as possible. Because of its straightforward approach, this book is able to progress into more advanced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789715392
• ISBN13: 9780789715395
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 858 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very good, but not for newbies...

I recommend you to read other books before this one. This should be your second book. It explains some of AppWizard's code (Good Thing) but not too much as I expected. If your starting I recommend you to buy another book.

Excellent book

This book is an excellent book, cause it provides explanation for how the code is written, not just how to use the Appwizard just like all the other books do, it provides information about the origin of the code generated by the Appwizard.

Excellent book - for the targeted market

This book presents exactly what the title and cover information purport: Using VC++ 6 on an advanced beginner-intermediate level. Covers all the BASICS of developing Win apps. For example, while it mentions the SDK API, covers database fundamentals, and provides a good intro to COM, it does NOT repeat the MS SDK reference, go into strategic enterprise-wide database development, or become an intimate, bit-busting dissection of COM, all of which are obviously topics which require a minimum of another complete volume. It provides a broad, no-holes coverage of VC++: a good foundation on which one can build more complex specifics.Does get repetitious about step-by-step and wizards, evidently so that it may be used as a simple single-chapter cookbook, and therefore does not offer any consolidated challenges.As a comprehensive, hold-your-hand intro for developing reasonable proficiency in navigating around VC++, while providing enough of a glimpse into the details behind the scenes for understanding some of the big picture, one gets exactly what is advertised.

Excellent work!

This was a very well done book. I had some experience in Visual C++ which is what caused me to buy it in the first place.It covers a lot of material, but is not repetitive. Some books I've seen repeat the same stupid steps over and over. This book is not like that. It includes a lot of very relevant information and doesn't waste space telling you how to setup your project. As such, you must know how to use Visual C++ fairly well. While it doesn't go into any subjects in depth, it at least covers many different things.I highly recommend this book if you already know how to program things in Visual C++ and would just like to learn more.

Outstanding, well-written, comprehensive Visual C++ text.

This is one of the best programming texts of any description that I have ever read. The sample code segments are not just "dumped" on you, but are presented with clearly understandable explanations of just what that code is doing.The descriptions of how to use the Developer Studio user interface is an appendix. You should read it first, as it provides in-depth instruction for this rich, rather complex user interface.This book delivers on everything it promises. Although there is no cd, the source is easily available online.