Course No. 789 - Five days
Mastering MFC Development Using Microsoft Visual C++ 5

This course is intended for developers, systems analysts, and information managers who are responsible for implementing sophisticated C++ applications using Microsoft Foundation Classes, Active Template Library, and Component Object Model technologies.

The primary goal of this course is to teach students how to develop applications and components for database front ends and the Internet using the Microsoft® Visual C++® development system, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), Active Template Library (ATL), and Component Object Model (COM) technologies.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe the types of applications and components that can be developed using Microsoft Visual C++.
• Describe the basic architecture of an MFC application and the general structure of the MFC Library.
• Debug MFC applications.
• Use MFC to design, create, and implement menus, toolbars, status bars, and dialog bars.
• Design, build, and test dialog boxes.
• Describe the view classes available in MFC and implement them, case by case, in an application.
• Build database applications.
• Create custom queries, select specific records, and lock records using MFC.
• Use the Web Browser control, WinInet, and WinSock classes.
• Build MFC Internet applications.
• Create ActiveX™ components using the ActiveX control wizard and use them in an MFC application.
• Create COM objects using ATL COM AppWizard, and use them in an MFC application.
• Create Internet server application programming interface (ISAPI) extensions for both applications and filters.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

This course helps you prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

• Exam 70-024, Developing Applications with C++ Using the Microsoft Foundation Class Library
• Exam 70-025, Implementing OLE 2.0 in Microsoft Foundation Class Applications

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam(s):

• Basic C++ programming skills
  • All C++ coding constructs common with C
  • Inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, and default arguments
• Some programming experience with MFC Library
• Microsoft Windows®-based user skills, including using a mouse, menus, the file system, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer interface
• Windows architecture concepts, including defining event-driven programming, processes, virtual memory models, threading, multitasking, and messaging
• Experience using a bitmap editor, a dialog editor, and the Visual C++ menu editor
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming terminology and concepts such as objects, properties, and methods

The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

Course Materials and Software

This course is licensed for use by a single user on a single computer. Multiuser usage is prohibited. All content on the CD can be printed.

The CD includes:

• Course chapters incorporating text, sound, video, graphics, animation, tips, cross-references to related information, and self-check questions
• Extensive lab exercises
• Sample code
• Library of related technical articles
• Index and glossary system for accessing information via keywords
• Help