Advanced VC++ 6.0 Book/Reference

[Christian Graus]

VC8 is standards compliant, VC6 is not. That's really the main reason I like it. VC8 does also build prettier UI.

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[acerunner316]

Is it because there is a NEW standard, or VC6 never met any standards to begin with? Also, I noticed that VC8 dropped the .net title. So VC8 doesn't have the .net framework? I've never actually done anything in .net because I've never used anything after VC6. Now back onto topic, if I were to switch to VC8 are there any book out there yet that covers topics more advanced than placing and using controls?

[stephen hazel]

Richter wrote a good book detailing OS stuff. Petzold wrote a good book detailing UI stuff. - You may already know everything in that one, though.

[acerunner316]

Can you give me the title of the book? Or the full name of the author? Thanks.

[stephen hazel]

Jeffery Richter - Advanced Windows. Charles Petzold - Programming Windows. Old, but good.

[Gary R Wheeler]

acerunner316 wrote:

So VC8 doesn't have the .net framework?

Not at all. .NET within Visual Studio 2005 is ubiquitous. In point of fact, C++/MFC development is distinctly a second-class citizen in the VS2005 world, if most comments about it are an indication.

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[Christian Graus]

ensger wrote:

What are the advanteges of VC8?

Standards conformance, for one

ensger wrote:

And will my program still work, when I change???

If it's not well written, you will need to make some changes. Either way, you will get warnings for unsafe string handling, but you can turn those off if you want.

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[Christian Graus]

acerunner316 wrote:

Is it because there is a NEW standard, or VC6 never met any standards to begin with?

The latter.

acerunner316 wrote:

So VC8 doesn't have the .net framework?

It has .NET, but C++ is the only place you don't HAVE to use it.

acerunner316 wrote:

if I were to switch to VC8 are there any book out there yet that covers topics more advanced than placing and using controls?

There have always been books on more advanced topics, such as DirectX, data access, etc. Have you looked at Amazon ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Ace, Richter is one of my Favorites. I am constantly in his Programming Server Side Applications (ISBN 0-7356-0753-2). I also frequently use his other book (Programming Applications for Windows) also. Also, John Robbins' Debugging Applications, ISBN0-7356-0886-5. Jeff

[ThatsAlok]

acerunner316 wrote:

Does anybody know of any good books for VC++ 6.0 that covers more advanced topics? Something that's more advanced that the beginners books like "learn VC++ in a week" type of books.

Developer guide to Visual C++ 6.0

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