Best book to learn MFC internals

Question

Hi All,

Which book you suggest by which any bit experienced MFC programmer can learn much dipper, about internal design or architecture and structures and how the whole things works.

If anyone knows any book or online reference...

Thanks, Bhavesh Bagadiya

Answer 1

For a detailed description of the internal workings of MFC, it's hard to beat:

G. Shepherd and S. Wingo - MFC Internals ISBN: 0-201-40721-3

Answer 2

An online place I like to dig through, is Microsoft Systems Journal.
You'll find many tips and tricks on MFC usage.

Answer 3

Read Professional MFC with vc++ by Mike Blaszczak, This one has detailed explanation on how MFC internally works. It is not very well-written book, But is full of internals.

Understanding how Win32 APIs works is also very important if you want to really understand how MFC works, As we know MFC is just c++ wrapper over it. Except some data-structure classes like CArray, CMap, etc.

Nice book I know about win32 APIs is Programming widows, by Charles Petzold

Finally MFC comes with code, Read it to understand each and every bit of it.

Regards, Sunny

Answer 4

I would recommend Jeff Prosise's Programming Windows with MFC, but once you've gone past that level of knowledge, then move onto the Win32 classic Programming Windows by Charles Petzold. Then, even though they're not books, if you want to learn a lot of Win32 internals, I would recommend the following blogs: Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing, and Larry Osterman's WebLog