Fundamentals of C++

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About this Course

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This course is intended for serious computer hobbyists, IT students, and IT professionals. You need Windows and Visual C++ installed.

The free online textbook for this course is Visual C++ 6 Unleashed . Read the Introduction to the book.

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Lesson 2. MFC Class Library Overview

In Lesson 1, you looked at Developer Studio and the tools that it provides to help you develop C++ applications for Windows. Now you will get down to business and look at real application development. To help you with this, the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) class library provides an application framework, in addition to the general classes and Win32 API wrapper classes that you expect from a Windows class library.

In this lesson, you will

Develop a complete application with MFC AppWizard.
Examine the application architecture used by MFC.
See how MFC works behind the scenes to make your application run.

Reading Assignments

Read the following sections from your free online textbook:

The Application Framework; Creating an MFC Application with MFC AppWizard; The CWinApp Class; The CWinThread Class; The CCmdTarget Class; The CObject Class; Runtime Type Information; Debugging Support; Putting It All Together; The Message Pump

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