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As of September 1998, the current edition is Special Edition Using Visual C++ 6.

Some excerpts from reader comments at Amazon

• A superb reference book and it does a great job at TEACHING.
• I went to the bookstore, found this book, bought it, and finished the job in just one day. My client was happy and I was happy too.
• The book was organized wonderfully!!  The best book I ever read on Visual C++ 5.0.

For updates and corrections to the book, be sure to check our corrections page.

We've put the sample application from the ATL chapter into a page of its own on this site, and you can have the source code, too. There also a sample chapter on-line at this site.

What's different from the 4.2 edition?

• Various typos and little annoyances fixed
• Chapter order rearranged to better reflect the way you are most likely to learn to use Visual C++
• New chapters: ATL, Enterprise Edition
• All instructions revised to reflect the rearranged menus and new dialogs in 5.0
• All code tested in the new version
• Reference material moved into appendices
• About half the chapters rewritten to make them clearer and more useful
• The CD is crammed with electronic books:
  • ActiveX programming with Visual C++ 5
  • Special Edition Using ISAPI
  • Special Edition Using HTML, 2nd Edition
  • C++ By Example
  • Special Edition Using MFC and ATL

Take a look at the Table of Contents:

Part I Getting Started

1 Building Your First Application

Part II Interacting with Your Application with Dialog Boxes and Controls

2 Dialog Boxes and Controls
3 Windows 95 Common Controls
4 Messages and Commands

Part III Getting Information From Your Application

5 Documents and Views
6 Drawing on the Screen
7 Printing and Print Preview
8 Persistence and File I/O
9 Building a Complete Application: ShowString

Part IV Improving Your User Interface

10 Status Bars and Toolbars
11 Help
12 Property Pages and Sheets and Wizards

Part V ActiveX Applications and ActiveX Controls

13 ActiveX Concepts
14 Building an ActiveX Container Application
15 Building an ActiveX Server Application
16 Building an Automation Server
17 Building an ActiveX Control

Part VI Internet Programming

18 Sockets, MAPI, and the Internet
19 Internet Programming with the WinInet Classes
20 Building an Internet ActiveX Control
22 The Active Template Library

Part VII Advanced Programming Techniques

21 Database Access
23 SQL and the Enterprise Edition
24 Improving Your Application’s Performance
25 Achieving Reuse with the Gallery and Your Own AppWizards
26 Exceptions, Templates, and the Latest Additions to C++
27 Multitasking with Windows Threads
28 Future Explorations

Appendixes

A Windows Programming Review and a Look Inside CWnd
B The Developer Studio User Interface
C Debugging
D MFC Macros and Globals
E Useful Classes
F What’s On the CD?

To get your own copy, we would prefer that you get your local bookstore to order one for you. You see, they usually order three or four, and perhaps the next people in the store will buy a copy when they see it on the shelf. Here's what you need to tell the store:

Title: Special Edition Using Visual C++ 5.0
Author: Kate Gregory
ISBN: 0-7897-1145-1
Published by: Que Books
Price: 39.99 U.S.

Can't wait? Don't live near a bookstore? Prefer to buy your books on the web? OK, lots of online bookstores sell it. You can buy it from Amazon right now, by following this link.