Description
This course provides participants with a hands-on introduction to building Windows applications. It makes full use of Visual C++ (6.0) tools. The exercises provide solutions to common problems. The course covers the MFC library, the Visual C++ Document-View-Frame model for building standard Windows applications, the MDI (Multiple Document Interface), and creation of OLE-compliant compound document files.

Audience
Programmers who will be building Windows applications using MFC.

Prerequisites
Participants must have practical experience programming in C++. Experience with the Windows SDK is helpful but not required.

Hardware and Software
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0, running on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. Pentium systems are recommended to shorten compile times. The systems should read a 3.5” solution disk or CD-ROM.

Format

• Presentation
  
• Hands-on
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Use the AppWizard and other Visual C++ tools
• Build user interfaces using views, menus, dialog boxes, and controls
• Describe the Windows event-driven application model as seen through the Visual C++ environment
• Use ActiveX controls in Windows applications
• Use ODBC for database access with Visual C++
• Describe MFC's document/view architecture
• Design advanced windows

Windows Application Management

• Application Management Under Windows
• Windows API Programming
• MFC Windows Class Hierarchy

Introduction to the Tool

• AppWizard Overview
• The Simple Application
• Project | Add to Project | New
• Project | Add to Project | Files
• Build | Build, Build | Rebuild All, and Build | Execute
• File | Open Workspace and File | Close Workspace
• AppWizard
• Executing the Simple Application

Other Wizards and Debugging

• ClassWizard
• The Message Map
• Resource Editors
• The Debugger
• Using The Integrated Debugger
• Setting Breakpoints
• Edit and Continue
• Project Settings

Managing Resources

• Resource Defined
• Resource Files, Compilation, and Binding
• Resource View
• Inserting New Resources

Menus

• The Menu Editor
• Menus and the Keyboard Interface

Events and Handlers

• Events and Handlers
• The ClassWizard
• Handling Options and Implications
• Handling Menu Events

Dialog Boxes

• Dialog Boxes
• The Dialog Editor
• Creating a Dialog Class
• Displaying the New Dialog Box
• Automatic Data Exchange
• Modeless Dialogs
• Common Dialogs

Basic Controls

• Accessing Controls from the Dialog Class
• Static Text Controls
• Edit Box Controls
• Push Button Controls
• Static Text Example
• Check Box Controls
• Radio Button Controls
• Group Box Controls
• Check Box and Radio Button Example
• Picture Box Controls

List Box Controls

• List Box Controls
• Combo Boxes

Windows Common Controls

• Progress Bar Control
• Slider Control
• Spin Control
• List Control
• Tree View Control

Using ActiveX Controls

• ActiveX Components
• Installing ActiveX Components
• Adding ActiveX Components to a Project
• MSFlexGrid Control

Database Access with ODBC

• Rationale for Using Open Database Connectivity
• MFC Classes for ODBC
• ODBC Configuration For Windows
• MFC ODBC Example

Documents and Views

• The Document-View Architecture
• Multiple Views of Data
• Finding a View’s Document and Vice Versa
• Processing User Input
• Painting in Windows

Advanced Window Design

• Interacting with the Framework
• SDI and MDI Applications
• MFC Architecture
• Splitter Windows
• Window Design Options