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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days Review by Robert B
An excellent introduction to Visual C++
At first I began reviewing this book as I studied it but scrapped that review as being far too lengthy - I had detailed some of the bugs that I had found in both the book's code and the book's website's downloadable code. Yes, there are some bugs and I did have a certain amount of trouble running some of the days code.
Nevertheless, the book does seem to have some merit: It is, for the most part, clearly written and, for an introductory text, the example programs seem very ambitious, and thus interesting and almost useful in their own right, something that is rare in many introductory texts.
The author seems to be a very good C++ programmer and the presentation is very clear and concise - it just seems that the book may have been written and finished in haste, hence the (fairly "minor") errors and bugs that appear. Additionally, the downloadable source code does not always match that of the book making the programming somewhat confusing at times.Additionally, there are some lines that are in the book but commented out in the source code - apparently they had to be for the code to compile correctly.
A better introductory book on MFC is Herb Schildt's MFC Programming From the Ground Up, 2nd edition,also written for Visual C++ version 6. Schildt's book is bug free and as an introductory text it does not use the Visual C++ AppWizard and
Document/View architecture until the final chapters, thus truly teaching MFC fundamentals without the confusion inherent in the AppWizard and Document/View code.