Re: Good MFC Book

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

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Date:

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:36:01 -0700

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The debate about top posting or bottom posting pops up every once in a while
and there seems to be almost religious issues on both sides.

I "think" the bottom posters like to see all the "stuff" above the answer so
they can read it all again.

I "think" that it is annoying to have to scroll through often pages of stuff
to read the latest in a thread I've been following. When I post (and trim)
I am responding to a person looking for an answer, not trying to further a
discussion (necessarily). I guess it's just a matter of perspective, but
typically, unless I am really interested, if I open a post and I can't see
the "new stuff" in the screen area I just go on to the next one.

I'm hoping both can live long and prosperous lives

:o)

Tom

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Murphy" <gerrymurphy@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Good MFC Book

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply, I've been away a bit and I'm still catching
up
with old messages.

I just ordered this from a third party through Amazon back in January
and
paid less than $31 with shipping for a 'used' copy indistinguishable
from
new.

Are you trying to order through Amazon or AmazonUK? I've ordered from
both
and haven't seen a huge price difference, but perhaps this is an
exception.

Regards,

Gerry Murphy

"dave.m.moore123@googlemail.com" <dave_m_moore@post2me.freeserve.co.uk>
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On 25 Jan, 12:11, "Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dica...@invalid.com>
wrote:

"dave.m.moore...@googlemail.com"
<dave_m_mo...@post2me.freeserve.co.uk>
ha
scritto nel

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om...

I'd like to get a decent MFC book. I have good c++ skills and
considerable experience writing non-MFC applications in Visual
Studio.
Can anyone recommend a good book for writing MFC applications?.

I would recommend Jeff Prosise's "Programming Windows with MFC"
(Microsoft
Press).
The author is very clear in explaining the subject. This book is a
quality
book, IMHO.

You can find it used at a small price here:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Windows-MFC-Jeff-Prosise/dp/1572316950

Giovanni

For some reason, the Prosise book can't be bought from Amazon for less
that ?65 in the UK which seems damn extortionate to me. I have been
recommmended this book before, but I'm not paying ?65 for it - it is
gold plated?.

Dave

Having just checked, Amazon UK only has this available from thrid party
sellers, who do indeed charge an awful lot for it. However, abebooks is
able to provide it for significantly less from overseas sellers.

Here's a question; given that I can buy the previous edition, "
Programming Windows 95 with MFC", for about two pounds fifty (that's a
little under five dollars for our US readers) including postage, what do
I
miss out on by getting the previous edition?

I use Petzold for the WinAPI, which is of course marvellous, even if he
did write everything in C and I have to stick explicit casts all over the
place; if my aim is to properly understand the MFC (by which, of course,
I
mean ignoring the wizards etc. and actually writing the code myself) is
the previous edition still good for that, given that we're on MFC version
9 now?

'Chops

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