Chapter 1 -- Preparing for Application Development

Chapter 1

About This Chapter

In this chapter, you will learn about the elements of designing a Microsoft Visual C++ application using Microsoft design concepts. You will study the issues that you should consider in planning your design. You will also be given an overview of the Visual C++ development tools through a description of the installation options.

Before You Begin

To complete Lab 1 at the end of this chapter, you should have set up the Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 database and run the scripts to create the STUpload database, as described in the preceding section, About This Book.