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Presents focused explanations of the core features and complexities of MFC programming with Visual C++6. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

David White and Kenn Scribner are systems programmers with the world's largest supplier of information services for the legal industry. They use Visual C++ and MFC to develop custom applications that are marketed in more than 60 countries. In addition, Kenn is the president of Endurasoft Software, a supplier of MFC and ActiveX software solutions. Eugene Olafsen has worked with MFC/OLE since its humble beginnings. He has worked to develop applications ranging from engine test simulators for Boeing to search and publishing systems for Reuters.

Foreword	p. xxiv
Introduction	p. 1
Core MFC	p. 5
The MFC Architecture	p. 7
A Brief History of MFC	p. 8
The MFC Class Hierarchy	p. 13
Summary	p. 48
MFC Dialogs, Controls, and Data Interaction	p. 49
Creating an Application	p. 50
Modifying the Application	p. 57
ToolTips	p. 71
Dialog Data Exchange	p. 72
Using Standard Dialog Boxes	p. 74
Summary	p. 77
The Windows Common Controls	p. 79
Initializing and Using the Common Controls	p. 80
Notifications for Windows Common Controls	p. 81
Hot Key Controls: Class CHotKeyCtrl	p. 85
Spin Controls: Class CSpinButtonCtrl	p. 88
Slider Controls: Class CSliderCtrl	p. 95
Progress Bar Controls: Class CProgressCtrl	p. 105
Image Lists: Class CImageList	p. 107
List View Controls: Class CListCtrl	p. 110
List View Items and Subitems	p. 114
Tree View Controls: Class CTreeCtrl	p. 120
Tab Controls: Class CTabCtrl	p. 125
Animate Controls: Class CAnimateCtrl	p. 131
Rich Edit Controls: Class CRichEditCtrl	p. 135
Summary	p. 146
Painting, Device Contexts, Bitmaps, and Fonts	p. 147
Device Contexts	p. 148
The Graphics Device Interface	p. 149
MFC Device Context Classes	p. 150
Windows Graphic Objects	p. 158
GDI Coordinate Systems	p. 165
Vector Graphics	p. 167
Fonts and Text	p. 184
Sample Program: Vector Graphics and Text Methods (VECTEXT1.EXE)	p. 194
Raster Graphics	p. 196
Bitmap Resources	p. 203
Sample Program: Exploring Bitmap Resources (BITMAP1)	p. 206
Summary	p. 210
Custom Control Development	p. 213
Window Classes Versus C++ Classes	p. 214
A Validating Edit Control	p. 215
The Clock Static Control	p. 217
The Hyperlink Control	p. 225
Advanced Custom Control Topics	p. 237
Summary	p. 240
The MFC Application Object, Message Routing, and Idle Processing	p. 241
The MFC Application Object	p. 242
Message Routing, Message Maps, and Message Categories	p. 259
Idle Processing	p. 266
The Splash Screen Component	p. 270
Summary	p. 271
Documents, Views, and Applications That Use Them	p. 273
The Document/View Architecture	p. 275
Documents, Frames, and Views	p. 276
Creating New Documents	p. 280
Views	p. 285
Summary	p. 299
Extending the User Interface	p. 301
Responding to the User	p. 302
User Interfaces and AppWizard	p. 309
Extending Menus	p. 310
Putting Control Bars to Use	p. 314
Updating the User Interface	p. 324
Property Sheets and Wizards	p. 326
Splitting a View	p. 340
Summary	p. 343
Printing	p. 345
Printing Fundamentals	p. 346
Printing with MFC	p. 347
Printing and GDI Mapping Modes	p. 352
WYSIWYG Printing	p. 354
Pagination	p. 361
Stopping and Aborting Print Jobs	p. 367
Summary	p. 369
MFC and COM Programming	p. 371
COM	p. 373
A Little History	p. 374
Interfaces, Objects, and Methods	p. 375
Servers, Clients, and Classes	p. 382
The COM Runtime Environment	p. 384
Marshaling and Threading	p. 386
COM, OLE, and Automation	p. 390
Persisting COM Data	p. 393
Identifying COM Data (Monikers)	p. 396
Transferring Data	p. 397
DCOM	p. 399
Some Important Information	p. 405
Further Reading	p. 407
Summary	p. 408
COM and MFC	p. 409
Understanding the Afx Global Functions	p. 410
Reviewing the OLE Macros	p. 420
MFC and the OLE Class Categories	p. 434
Summary	p. 448
MFC OLE Servers	p. 449
Document Servers	p. 450
Server Types	p. 451
Document Server Design	p. 452
Building an Active Document Server	p. 462
Automation Servers	p. 465
IDispatch	p. 467
IDispatch-Derived Interface in ODL	p. 467
Calling Methods Through IDispatch	p. 469
Dispinterfaces Differ from Interfaces	p. 471
Accessing Automation Servers in C++ Through IDispatch	p. 471
Dual Interfaces	p. 472
The Variant	p. 473
An Automation Server Using MFC	p. 476
Summary	p. 483
MFC OLE Clients	p. 485
IDispatch and Its Place in Automation	p. 486
Interface Definition for Automation Servers	p. 486
MFC and Automation	p. 491
Building a Controller	p. 496
Summary	p. 517
MFC ActiveX Controls	p. 519
Development Strategy	p. 521
Control Development	p. 523
Two Faces of a Control	p. 526
Subclassing a Control	p. 527
Component Categories	p. 528
Methods, Properties, and Events	p. 530
Property Pages	p. 535
Component Registration	p. 538
COM Object Subkeys	p. 539
Building an MFC Control	p. 540
Interface Definition	p. 543
A Quick ATL Port	p. 553
Summary	p. 559
MFC ActiveX Control Containers	p. 561
Active Document Container	p. 562
OLE Controls	p. 571
Summary	p. 588
Using MFC and ATL	p. 589
What Is ATL and Why Is It Important for Programming in MFC?	p. 590
Helpful ATL COM Support for MFC Applications	p. 591
Advanced ATL Support for MFC Applications	p. 604
Summary	p. 623
Scripting Your MFC Application	p. 625
Scripting Basics	p. 626
Object Models	p. 637
Implementing a Scripted Application	p. 639
Summary	p. 651
MFC Database Programming	p. 653
MFC Database Processing	p. 655
Relational Database Concepts	p. 656
Storing and Retrieving Data	p. 660
Database Communication Mechanisms	p. 663
ODBC/MFC	p. 665
DAO	p. 677
Summary	p. 684
Advanced Database Support	p. 685
The COM Approach	p. 686
OLE DB Consumers Using the ATL Wrapper Classes	p. 687
Using the ADO C++ Interfaces	p. 708
Summary	p. 727
MFC Utility Classes	p. 729
Strings and Collections	p. 731
Strings and String Classes	p. 732
Collections	p. 741
The UNL_MultiEd Application	p. 749
An STL Approach	p. 754
Summary	p. 755
File I/O and MFC	p. 757
The CFile Class	p. 758
Inside the CFile Class	p. 761
The CFileDialog Class	p. 770
The User-Defined CFileDialog Class	p. 772
Practical Usage of CFile and CFileDialog	p. 773
A Classical Approach	p. 778
Summary	p. 780
Exceptions	p. 781
Exceptions--What Are They Good For?	p. 782
Types of Exceptions	p. 785
Structured Exception Handlers	p. 786
Nesting of Structured Exception Handlers	p. 788
Raising Structured Exceptions	p. 789
Cleaning Up After an Exception	p. 790
C++ Exceptions	p. 792
Defining a C++ Exception Class	p. 795
MFC Exceptions	p. 797
Deriving Your own MFC-Compliant Exception Objects	p. 808
Deleting Exceptions	p. 810
Using MFC Exception Macros	p. 812
Mixing Exceptions	p. 813
Summary	p. 814
MFC and the Web	p. 815
MFC and DHTML	p. 817
DHTML, MSIE, and the Internet	p. 818
Using the Internet Explorer Web ActiveX Control	p. 819
Using DHTML	p. 829
Summary	p. 850
CSocket Programming	p. 851
How Do Network Communications Work?	p. 852
Winsock and MFC	p. 855
Building a Networked Application	p. 869
Summary	p. 884
WinInet Programming	p. 885
Web Application Protocols and WinInet	p. 886
Internet Session Basics	p. 890
Application-Level Functionality	p. 909
Summary	p. 933
ISAPI Extensions	p. 935
The Foundation	p. 936
From There to Here	p. 951
From Get to Post	p. 957
Adding Some Form Elements	p. 959
Other Form Input Elements	p. 965
Summary	p. 968
MAPI and MFC	p. 969
The Messaging Application Programming Interface	p. 970
Two Higher-Level Alternatives: Simple MAPI and CMC	p. 971
Limited MAPI Functionality in MFC	p. 975
The CDocument Connection	p. 975
Sample Program: MAPI1.EXE	p. 981
Summary	p. 985
TAPI and MFC	p. 987
Overview	p. 988
History of TAPI	p. 995
Using Assisted Telephony	p. 999
Using Basic Telephony	p. 1002
Summary	p. 1019
MFC and Graphics Programming	p. 1021
MFC and OpenGL	p. 1023
What Is OpenGL?	p. 1024
Graphics Boot Camp	p. 1025
OpenGL Boot Camp	p. 1032
Minimal OpenGL Program and a Custom View	p. 1042
2D and 3D Models	p. 1055
Light	p. 1064
Texture Mapping	p. 1069
Special Effects	p. 1073
Summary	p. 1075
MFC and DirectX	p. 1077
What Is DirectX?	p. 1078
DirectX Basics	p. 1081
DirectDraw Basics	p. 1083
Using DirectDraw in Practice	p. 1102
Summary	p. 1116
Multimedia and MFC	p. 1117
Multimedia Fundamentals	p. 1118
The DirectX Media Player Control	p. 1119
Using the Media Player Control	p. 1122
Playing Sound	p. 1131
Summary	p. 1155
Advanced MFC	p. 1157
Inside the Registry	p. 1159
Registry Usage	p. 1161
The Registry Structure	p. 1163
Programmatic Control of the Registry	p. 1164
The Registry Sample Application	p. 1167
A Word About Wrapping the Registry Functions	p. 1176
A Word About Installation	p. 1177
Summary	p. 1178
Writing and Using DLLs	p. 1179
Advantages of DLLs	p. 1180
Inside an AFX DLL	p. 1181
Exporting Classes, Functions, and Data	p. 1182
Other DLL Issues	p. 1192
Summary	p. 1197
Creating Custom Wizards	p. 1199
Property Sheets and Property Pages	p. 1200
Creating a Wizard	p. 1203
Sample Program: Off to See the Wizard (WIZARD1.EXE)	p. 1205
Summary	p. 1220
Index	p. 1221
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