Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Developer's Workshop (Microsoft Programming Series) - Softcover

Dunn, Shannon; Shannon, D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572319259 ISBN 13: 9781572319257

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 1998

Synopsis

Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Developer's Workshop delivers the tools and mentoring you need to build more-powerful Windows solutions - faster. Dive into version 6.0 enhancements, using Windows Foundation Classes (WFC) to bring Win32 functionality to Java. As you move from basic to advanced topics, you'll find smart solutions to typical ""how-to"" questions - learning how to build everything from an ActiveX control to a COM-server - driven application.

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Review

After taking a quick look at the Visual J++ 6 programming environment, this book jumps right in with building simple applications, showing off features such as forms, menus, and status bars that are part of most Windows applications. (The author goes even further with some material on HTML-based help systems and drag-and-drop support.) Next the book explains how to use basic Windows controls and the Windows Foundation Classes (WFC) used to encapsulate their functionality. Details on more advanced controls such as TreeView and ListView follow.

Instead of a comprehensive tour of every control and feature, the author concentrates on what you need to get started with Visual J++ right away and then gets into basic database programming, including grid controls. Later sections of the book focus on creating custom WFC controls. (Since Visual J++ manages the difficulty here, you can write WFC controls without mastering the details of ActiveX.)

The final chapter presents a very useful case study for an inventory database for an online book company. --Richard Dragan

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572319259
• ISBN 13: 9781572319257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450