Using MFC 6 Unleashed, the reader will learn to apply the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to resolve a number of common and not-so-common programming issues. The design of the book makes it easy for readers to quickly find the topics they are interested in, and its advanced level coverage provides for a complete understanding of MFC. Within each topic, readers will be provided with detailed background information, including class hierarchies, as well as example code that can be applied to their own applications. Topic coverage will include, but is not limited to: Part I: MFC Architecture Part II: Dialogs, Messages, and controls/notifications Part III: Documents, Views, and Applications Part IV: MFC and COM Programming Part V: MFC Database Programming Part VI: MFC Utility Classes Part VII: MFC and the Web Part VIII: MFC and Graphics Programming Part IX: Advanced MFC (Tips and Tricks)

Table of Contents:
Introduction ..... 1 Part I: Core MFC ..... 5 Chapter 1: The MFC Architecture ..... 7 Chapter 2: MFC Dialogs, Controls, and Data Interaction ..... 49 Chapter 3: The Windows Common Controls ..... 79 Chapter 4: Painting, Device Contexts, Bitmaps, and Fonts ..... 147 Chapter 5: Custom Control Development ..... 213 Chapter 6: The MFC Application Object, Message Routing, and Idle Processing ..... 241 Part II: Documents, Views, and Applications That Use Them ..... 273 Chapter 7: The Document/View Architecture ..... 275 Chapter 8: Extending the User Inter-face ..... 301 Chapter 9: Printing ..... 345 Part III: MFC and COM Programming ..... 371 Chapter 10: COM ..... 373 Chapter 11: COM and MFC ..... 409 Chapter 12: MFC OLE Servers ..... 449 Chapter 13: MFC OLE Clients ..... 485 Chapter 14: MFC ActiveX Controls ..... 519 Chapter 15: MFC ActiveX Control Containers ..... 561 Chapter 16: Using MFC and ATL ..... 589 Chapter 17: Scripting Your MFC Application ..... 625 Part IV: MFC Database Programming ..... 653 Chapter 18: MFC Database Processing ..... 655 Chapter 19: Advanced Database Support ..... 685 Part V: MFC Utility Classes ..... 729 Chapter 20: Strings and Collections ..... 731 Chapter 21: File I/O and MFC ..... 757 Chapter 22: Exceptions ..... 781 Part VI: MFC and the Web ..... 815 Chapter 23: MFC and DHTML ..... 817 Chapter 24: C Socket Programming ..... 851 Chapter 25: WinInet Programming ..... 885 Chapter 26: ISAPI Extensions ..... 935 Chapter 27: MAPI and MFC ..... 969 Chapter 28: TAPI and MFC ..... 987 Part VII: MFC and Graphics Programming ..... 1021 Chapter 29: MFC and OpenGL ..... 1023 Chapter 30: MFC and DirectX ..... 1077 Chapter 31: Multimedia and MFC ..... 1117 Part VIII: Advanced MFC ..... 1157 Chapter 32: Inside the Registry ..... 1159 Chapter 33: Writing and Using DLLs ..... 1179 Chapter 34: Creating Custom Wizards ..... 1199 Index ..... 1221