Visual C++ 5 Unleashed

New edition of a hefty programmer's reference incorporating the latest information on ActiveX, WinInet, shell extensions, NT services, OLEDB and ADO, DirectX, Internet classes, and SQL debugging, among other C++ topics. The included CD-ROM contains BoundsChecker 5, RoboHELP and WinHelp, VTune Visual Tuning Environment, Great Circle, ActiveX Factory, and author's examples from the book. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Programmers tend to be book junkies. If you're a C++ programmer, Visual C++ 5 Unleashed is an excellent investment that you'll use again and again. Designed to be a how-to compendium on a wide range of important topics, this 1,000-page book is aimed specifically at experienced C++ programmers.

Using a consistent and effective presentation, this book introduces basic and advanced topics and shows you how to implement these topics with complete application source codes. Each of the book's nine parts includes several chapters that cover each category completely. The book begins with a description of the Visual C++ development system and then presents the windows architecture, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), OLE, database programming, coding for network protocols such as TCP/IP, and multimedia topics. This guide also features information on building context-sensitive help and extending the environment with custom AppWizards.

The included CD-ROM contains the sample source code presented in the book as well as some useful debugging utilities. One of the strong points of this tutorial is the completeness of its code; all code snippets in the text are part of complete applications, which are all included on the CD-ROM. This should rank as a must-have weapon in a C++ programmer's arsenal.