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Create Efficient Responsive Robust Visual C++ Applications - Where Performance Matters

"Overall I felt it improved my knowledge of C++ - filled in some gaps and corrected some misunderstandings in my knowledge, and reminded me of some important things I'd forgotten."

IH, Software Engineer, May 2021

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Highlights

Understand C++ and Windows application architecture
Create Efficient Responsive Robust Visual C++ Applications - Where Performance Matters
Gain an Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
Define Classes & Libraries
Explore The Microsoft Foundation Classes
Understand Resources with Menus Toolbars and Bitmaps
Learn Messages and Message Maps
Utilise Scrolling and Splitting
Learn Dialogs with Data exchange and validation
Utilise Graphics, Text and Printing
Explore Messaging Functions: Define messages
Multitask with threads and priority classes
Connect to Data Base and Use Databases

Course Details

Introduction

Visual C++ or Visual Studio .NET. Object Oriented Programming

Classes

Defining a class
Constructors
Destructor
Inline functions

Pointers and Dynamic Memory

Declaring pointers
Use of new and delete
Exception handling

Inheritance – Polymorphism

Virtual functions
Pure virtual functions
Abstract classes

Introduction to Windows

Windows Architecture

The Microsoft Foundation Classes

Overview of MFC library
Document/view architecture.

Resources

Menus
Toolbars
Bitmaps

Messages and Message Maps

Messages handled in MFC
Message Map Macros
Message routing
Commands and UI Commands
Menus, dialogs and toolbars

Collections and Serialization

Original Collections
Template Collections
Serialization

Scrolling and Splitting

Document/View architecture
Document Templates
Splitter Windows
ScrollView

Dialogs

Dialog resources
Creating a dialog class
Adding Controls
Associating members and Controls
Adding event handlers
Data exchange and validation

Clipboard

Cut, copy, paste

Graphics, Text and Printing

Graphical Device Interface (GDI)
Device Context (DC)
Drawing text and Fonts
Pens, brushes and Colours
Printing and Print Preview

Defining Messages

User Messages
Registered messages
Sending and posting messages
Adding to message map

Multitasking

Threads
Mutex, Semaphore and Event
Priorities and Priority classes

Connecting to Databases

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Data Access Objects (DAO)
Database classes

Overview of ATL and STL

Servers and Simple Objects
Overview of Standard Templates
Libraries

Who should attend

This course is aimed at giving programmers an intensive introduction to developing commercial-quality Windows applications using Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)..

Feedback

4.8 out of 5 average

"Overall I felt it improved my knowledge of C++ - filled in some gaps and corrected some misunderstandings in my knowledge, and reminded me of some important things I'd forgotten."

IH, Software Engineer, May 2021

“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

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More about this course

This MFC training course is aimed at giving programmers an intensive introduction to developing commercial-quality Windows applications using Visual C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC). C++ has always been an exciting and challenging language and with the advent of the new C++ 11, 14 and 17 standards this is even more the case. As such, C++ is best mastered by a hands on tutorial style approach rather than by a traditional lecture style. In this course practical examples are built from scratch in Windows, MacOS and Linux using VC++, clang and gcc.. Understanding is key with C++ and many complex topics such as ‘R Value References’, ‘Universal References’, ‘Expression Templates’ are explored in detail. Delegates are encouraged to fully participate in instructor led live demonstrations of such topics and by the end of the course each delegate departs with a comprehensive set of working examples.