"Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Reference Library" is the print equivalent of the voluminous online Help reference information that accompanies Visual C++. It's a comprehensive, accurate resource from the Microsoft product development team for programming with this powerful, highly productive object-oriented development environment. The five-volume set offers in-depth coverage of Visual C++, including: Terminology and concepts for C and C++ language definitions A-Z listings of preprocessor directives An alphabetical reference of the Microsoft Foundation Class library A section on macros and globals A reference for the Active Template Library (ATL) and for OLE DB A-Z listings for the run-time and iostream libraries, including helpful source code examples.
Volumes 1 and 2 of this package comprise the voluminous reference to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) library. These two books, totaling more than 3,000 pages, provide detailed information on the MFC classes, functions, macros, and variables. Volume 1 opens with an outline of the MFC by category, while the second installment offers a detailed reference to each class.
The third volume in this set covers the template libraries in Visual C++ 6.0. This book opens with a technical discussion of the Active Template Library (ATL) and a brief ATL tutorial. The remainder of the volume is devoted to the detailed reference of the ATL.
The first part of the Run-Time Library Reference, the next volume in the series, details the C++ iostream library--with a quick discussion of streams and iostream programming--and alphabetically lists Microsoft's iostream classes. The second portion of this book lists the run-time routines by category. Each routine is followed up by global variables, types, and constants.
The last volume in this group is actually three books in one. The first is a detailed Visual C 6.0 reference that covers all the basic constructs, such as statements, functions, identifiers, and syntax. Next, an equally detailed reference to C++ discusses all of the object-oriented additions to C++. A reference guide to the preprocessor directives and macros follows these two language summaries. --Stephen Plain
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Neccessary for MSVC++:
My Microsoft Foundation Class Bible was getting old and out-dated. I bought this primarily for the MFC reference and as icing got the Language and run-time library reference.
Hardcopy is a little easier on the eyes and I grew up with books.
Caution: This reference set seems like 12 books crammed into 5 without the consideration of reformatting. The pages aren't numberered the way one would expect. One book ends and another begins without warning, beining at page one. The index for each "Section" is at... more info
Believe me: You don't need this!:
All information you need is already there, in MSDN. It's not worth to have all those pages printed. I have bought this reference thinking it was different from current documentation attached to Visual C++, but it is the SAME.
This is fairly useless, unless you want to loose time and money.
Best MFC Classes Documentations:
Did you ever got frustrated from programming Windows application because you couldn't find the documentation when needed the most? Be honest now, can you really say the MSDN cds are all you need to give you adequate documentation to get by MFC? Maybe so, but you are probably doing it the hard way.
Let me let you in a trick that I learn from Windows programming that can help you become more efficient in MFC. Place the volume 1 & 2 of this reference set beside your computer on the angle desk. Yup,... more info
Review For Volume 4: Run-Time Library Reference:
This is the first book I read out of the volume set (5 books total), and why? Because it is an excellent, and well indexed resource on C/C++ reference. Here, let me give you a quick run down on a few items that this volume has.
1) Buffer Manipulation and Memory Allocation. (can be useful when working with array).
2) Data Conversion core subroutines. (they are like the abc of programming if you ask me.)
3) Directory and file Handling routines. (quick solution to Windows directory)
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