Course - Visual C++ & MFC

Windows Programming using MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes)

• Windows Programming model, Event driven programming concept
  
  
• Benefits of using C++ and MFC. The MFC class hierarchy
  
  
• Developing first MFC application
  
  
• windows object, application object, message map, member functions, WinMain etc.
  
  

GDI

• Drawing in a window, GDI calls (Rectangle, LineTo, Arc etc.)
  
  
• Pens, Brushes etc
  
  

Mouse, Keyboard and Scroll

• Understanding and handling mouse events. Developing mouse applications
  
  
• Keyboard events, developing applications using key events
  
  
• Scroll messages, Horizontal and vertical scrollbar etc.
  
  

Timer

• Role of timer in developing applications. Timer messages
  
  
• Different ways of handling timer messages
  
  

Menus

• Menus architecture
  
  
• Implementing Menus in Windows, Floating-point menus
  
  
• Menu Accelerators. Building menu applications
  
  

Child Window controls

• Child window control classes - Button, List, Edit, Scrollbar, Static etc
  
  
• Windows 95 Common controls (Tree,List, Tab controls etc.)
  
  
• Developing application using the above controls
  
  

Dialog Box

• Implementing Dialog boxes using MFC classes
  
  
• Modal & Modeless Dialog box
  
  

Visual C++

• Creating a VC++ application using App Wizard
  
  
• Document-View Architecture
  
  
• Adding resources like Menus, Dialog boxes, Bitmaps, Accelerators to the application using App Studio
  
  
• Connecting the resources to the application using Class Wizard
  
  
• Scrollbar classes, Splitter windows (Static and Dynamic)
  
  
• SDI with MultipleViews etc
  
  
• Building an MDI application
  
  
• File handling & serialization
  
  
• Overview of OLE, Embedded vs. Linked items, Containers & Servers, Verbs
  
  
• Concept of DLL (Regular & Extension)
  
  
• Building a DLL and using the same in an application
  
  
• Developing software for international market (Unicode, MBCS etc)
  
  
• Database programming using MFC classes
  
  
• Overview of ODBC. Concepts of CRecordSet and CDatabase
  
  
• Multiple Record Sets, CRecordView with all constraint validation
  
  
• Database Applications with Databound Controls
  
  
• Introduction to Threads, Types of Threads
  
  
• Creation of User Interface Threads, Creation of Worker Threads
  
  
• Thread Synchronization
  
  
• Introduction to Active X controls. Building COM components and using them in an application
  
  
• Network programming. TCP/IP classes. Sockets. Developing network applications. Using Internet controls in VC++.