Chapter 3 -- Building Applications with the Microsoft Foundation Classes

Chapter 3

About This Chapter

In Chapter 2, you saw how to use the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) AppWizard to create projects based on Microsoft Foundation Classes. In this chapter, you will learn about specific MFC classes and their role in Windows application development. You will learn how the MFC framework implements the basic components of a Windows application and how it provides an architecture that enables the processing, display, and storage of the application's data.

Before You Begin

Before you start this chapter, you should have read and completed the lessons in Chapter 2, Visual C++ Development Environment.