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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days Review by Quasimodal
This is a useless book
Experienced in C and C++ I wanted to get started using Visual C++.
My first steps were through the online help of VC++, using the IDE and ClassWizard it is quite easy to build standard applications.
Then I wanted to understand a bit more about VC++ and bought this book. From the first to the last page, it says actually the same thing as the basic help: two pages to explain that you have to click this and that to get to a wizard or a menu, then... you get the very standard stuff.
The sample code? the code and its explanations are useless: this is almost what you find through the online help ; it will work the very standard way, but if you need to customize a bit (and you will need to) then you start to become more and more angry about this book, as nothing deeper is available.
I'm decided today to write this review as to encourage publishers to better select their books. This one is really a waste of time.