In-depth Analysis of MFC

Author: George Shepherd
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This is an MFC book that fills the gap between "Using Guides" for Visual C++, product documentation, and MFC source code. It serves as a guide to understanding the inner workings of MFC, providing unique and in-depth information about undocumented MFC classes, utility functions, and data members. It introduces useful coding techniques and offers important analysis of how MFC classes collaborate with each other. Part of the book covers core MFC graphics user interface classes and the classes that support them, while the second part explores advanced topics like OLE, which extend basic Windows support. If you achieve the following, you can become an expert in understanding the implementation details of MFC:
Explore the inner workings of the MFC document/view structure to learn about view synchronization, printing, and print preview;
Gain a deeper understanding of the undocumented aspects of MFC serialization and some undocumented classes, such as CPreview, CPreviewDC, CMirrorFile, and CDockBar, etc.;
Finally, understand how MFC and OLE work together, as well as how OLE controls are implemented;
Accumulate skills to independently research and understand MFC source code.