Davide Marcato

“The MFC Answer Book is organized as a large collection of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and programming problems accompanied by the detailed description of how the MFC classes (and the Visual C++ wizards) can be leveraged to build effective solutions. The questions are divided into categories based on the main class, the MFC-specific mechanism, or the user-interface feature they can be more closely associated with. Among the many categories you can find manners to customize the infamous document/view paradigm, manage documents, customizing dialog box elements, operating menus, toolbars and status bars, and coping with common issues of the printing and print preview mechanisms. For every FAQ, the question is first formulated in a concise format. Subsequently, the author provides the theoretical explanation of what the question really means and how the MFC machinery can accomplish it. Then the equivalent source code is presented in its entirety, coupled by both inline comments and step-by-step instructions. Occasionally, this part is followed by a section that delves deeper into the MFC architecture and unearths its interaction with the Windows APIs, obviously aimed at the more curious readers who wish to learn why the solution would work like it does. Eventually the "See Also" section suggests other FAQs covered by the book that are strictly related, and therefore would probably be a profitable read as a companion to the current one. --Davide Marcato, Dr. Dobb's Journal -- Dr. Dobb's Journal” (from Amazon)