Taking up MFC
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We are in the process of taking over a project from HQ team. One part is a configuration tool which is built using MFC. I don't have any experience with MFC (lots with C++) apart from a bit i did at college. Now I have to pick up this tool. The tool is used to configure a CORBA based server. How should I prepare for this? I don't have much time. Basically I'll get about a week before I must start implementing fresh requirements and fix defects in the tool.
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We are in the process of taking over a project from HQ team. One part is a configuration tool which is built using MFC. I don't have any experience with MFC (lots with C++) apart from a bit i did at college. Now I have to pick up this tool. The tool is used to configure a CORBA based server. How should I prepare for this? I don't have much time. Basically I'll get about a week before I must start implementing fresh requirements and fix defects in the tool.
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We are in the process of taking over a project from HQ team. One part is a configuration tool which is built using MFC. I don't have any experience with MFC (lots with C++) apart from a bit i did at college. Now I have to pick up this tool. The tool is used to configure a CORBA based server. How should I prepare for this? I don't have much time. Basically I'll get about a week before I must start implementing fresh requirements and fix defects in the tool.
I would work through some articles on this site to get an idea how MFC hangs together, and remember that you can always ask here if you get stuck on something.
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We are in the process of taking over a project from HQ team. One part is a configuration tool which is built using MFC. I don't have any experience with MFC (lots with C++) apart from a bit i did at college. Now I have to pick up this tool. The tool is used to configure a CORBA based server. How should I prepare for this? I don't have much time. Basically I'll get about a week before I must start implementing fresh requirements and fix defects in the tool.
I suggest two books and a website: Book 1 - Teach yourself Visual C++ .NET in 21 days - this will give you a good grasp of implementing some basic features in MFC Book 2 - Visual C++ .NET Bible - a great, but thorough reference to MFC, it is a behemoth, but nonetheless it has tons of good information. You can skip around to what you need to know Website - www.functionX.com - this website is awesome for learning MFC. You can do the tutorials on different aspects of MFC and even download an e-book. This tool is indispensible Oh, one more thing, the MSDN examples. When you click on a help topic, they often have sample MFC projects that show you how to implement specific functions. This should carry you a long way towards becoming well-versed in MFC. Hope this helps, BP
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I suggest two books and a website: Book 1 - Teach yourself Visual C++ .NET in 21 days - this will give you a good grasp of implementing some basic features in MFC Book 2 - Visual C++ .NET Bible - a great, but thorough reference to MFC, it is a behemoth, but nonetheless it has tons of good information. You can skip around to what you need to know Website - www.functionX.com - this website is awesome for learning MFC. You can do the tutorials on different aspects of MFC and even download an e-book. This tool is indispensible Oh, one more thing, the MSDN examples. When you click on a help topic, they often have sample MFC projects that show you how to implement specific functions. This should carry you a long way towards becoming well-versed in MFC. Hope this helps, BP
.net is not being used in our company. VS 7.1 is being used. And we put of managed extensions etc. so that code can compile using ACE on solaris and linux also. Will these books still be helpful? Can you suggest some other ones? Thanks for the refrences. I will use them for my own learning.
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.net is not being used in our company. VS 7.1 is being used. And we put of managed extensions etc. so that code can compile using ACE on solaris and linux also. Will these books still be helpful? Can you suggest some other ones? Thanks for the refrences. I will use them for my own learning.
The references are useful if you want to understand how MFC works. Essentially, they will show you what MFC was doing, then you can find similar methods in your libraries that will do the same thing. I would be happy to suggest other resources, however, I'm not sure about what you're trying to learn.