Re: Help with VC6.0 Basic Concept!

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rakesh.bohara@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

If you are very new to Windows programming, Please try to create some
Win32 application, I guess Programming Windows - Brent Rector is a good
book to start with, If you understand how the system works, it will be
very easy to understand, what is dialog based app or what is Doc/View
architecture,
Better start with basic Windows architecture, Learn how Win32 system
works internally and then go for MFC. By this mean you will understand
the Flexiblity provided by MFC compare to Win32.

Paul:

Actually, I disagree with this advice. Just as I believe it is not necessary (or desirable) to learn C before learning C++, I do not believe it is necessary (or desirable) to learn traditional Win32 GUI programming before learning MFC. You can, and should, learn about these things later, but I do not think it is necessary (for most people) to ever actually write a pure C program, or a pure Win32 GUI program.

What I think is important is to learn C++ very well before you start doing MFC (or any Windows programming). Many of the questions we see in these Microsoft newsgroups have to do with basic understanding of pointers and communication between objects, not with MFC or Windows per se.

David Wilkinson
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