Extend and modify MFC code to meet your needs! Author John Swanke delivers studied examples to give you a jump-start on creating more sophisticated and powerful applications. Each example is fully annotated and ready to insert into the your application -- or modify as you see fit. You get a concise review of the basics. Including how: The Windows API creates a Window MFC wraps and improves on the Windows API MFC communicates with a window MFC draws And you get solutions to 69 common application problems. User Interface examples that cover the entire range of Windows tasks include: Applications and environments Menus, toolbars, and status bars Views Control windows Drawing Help Internal processing examples -- more representative of the unseen, non-user interface part of MFC -- are also provided. Topics include messaging, communication and timers, making sounds, and binary strings. The CD-ROM contains a working project for Visual C++ V5.0 & V6.0 for every example in the book, as well as the author's own SampleWizard utility that facilitates adding these examples into your applications.