In Search Of a good MFC Book

[deathbow2134]

Hi, I know basic C++, and I am very knoweagable of other languages. What I am saying I am not a beginer to programming. I know the basics of SDK programming in C. I was wondering if anyone knows any good books to order to learn about MFC programming in C++ (Mircrsoft Foundation Classes)

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[weaknessforcats]

Is this for your job??

If so, get Programming Windows using MFC by Jeff Prosisi.

Otherwise, do not waste your time learning this thing. It is obsolete, has not been updated in years and is availabl;e onlty to support existing customers. The MFC class hoerarchy is very poorly designed and virtual functions have been disabled to avoid making vtables. Instead you have to use a MESSAGE_MAP macro system and hard-code your polymorphism.

At this point you should be learning the .NET Framework using either C# or Visual C++.NET.

[Meetee]

Hi, I know basic C++, and I am very knoweagable of other languages. What I am saying I am not a beginer to programming. I know the basics of SDK programming in C. I was wondering if anyone knows any good books to order to learn about MFC programming in C++ (Mircrsoft Foundation Classes)

Thanks, this is a great site :)

I would suggest you Petzold for MFC programming in C++.

Regards

[saranjegan]

I would suggest you Petzold for MFC programming in C++.

Regards

MFC is not dead and studying MFC is not waste of time, Programmers who write traditional Windows application and do it in C++ will continue to use MFC and win 32 API's , Certainly MS is trying to push everyone to use
.NET but there are too many programs using MFC out there that it is not that
simple to replace it with something else. Yes, MFC is an old and aging
arcithecture. It looks like a big hack using all those preprocessor
directives to make message maps etc., VC++ with dotnet might be the best route to go than C#.Net , so u can make anything with windows, anyhow if u need to learn MFC you should be good enough with win32 fundas with charles petzold book and drift to MFC with Jeff prosise "Programmin g Windows in MFC", there are dump of articles deals with this in MSDN

[weaknessforcats]

there are too many programs using MFC out there that it is not that
simple to replace it with something else. Yes, MFC is an old and aging
arcithecture. It looks like a big hack using all those preprocessor
directives to make message maps etc.,

You said it yourself. MFC remains to support the existing base. New applications involve the Internet and are not just for the local machine. The .NET Framework was designed with the Internet in mind.