Every essential skill required to build Windows desktop-style applications is covered in the context of fully working examples. The book begins with a quick primer in C + + language, and using Visual C + + IDE to create Windows applications. The book then moves into a comprehensive set of application examples, presents an important part of the code with an explanation of how it works, and how and when to use similar techniques in your own application. Applications include: Tetris-style game, application images, spreadsheets and word processing. If you know C + + language, or Windows-based programming language, and want to use C + + to write real, complex applications then this book is ideal for you. What you will learn from this book? As you read this book you will learn to: Building a bigger, more powerful, user-friendly C + + applicationsCreate MDI (multiple document interface) application and use other Windows applications elementsCreate memory interface structure for objects of complex applications: documents, spreadsheets, file structuresParse drawingsSave to represent this memory and process text, interactive graphic display, and handles input from the mouse and keyboard Who is this book written for? This book is ideal for programmers who have worked with C + + or other Windows-based programming language.