Visual C++ and MFC training course

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