Visual C++ Basics

This is a collection of programs developed as a beginners guide to Visual C++. A previous knowledge of C++ is assumed. The table below includes a number of tasks of increasing complexity. Assistance is provided for each task in the form of instructions, step by step worked examples and the full source code. An overview of this website can be found here.

Microsoft Visual C++ Version 6.0 is required for the tasks presented here.

Task	Instructions	Step by step	Download
1. Displaying text	Hello	worked example	souce code
2. Adding event handlers	Mouse	worked example	souce code
3. Creating a dialog box	Dialog	worked example	souce code
4. Displaying two views	View	worked example	souce code
5. Using pointers	Point	worked example	souce code
6. Creating a list	List	worked example	souce code
7. Moving within the list	Move	worked example	souce code
8. Editing the list	Edit	worked example	souce code
9. Saving the list	Save	worked example	souce code
10. Adding a list control	Listctrl	worked example	souce code
11. Editing using hints	Hint	worked example	souce code
12. Select the current item	Select	worked example	souce code
13. Using LPARAM values	LPARAM	worked example	souce code
14. Adding a pop-up menu	Pop-up	worked example	souce code
15. Using callback	Callback	worked example	souce code
16. Sorting the columns	Sort	worked example	souce code
17. Owner draw	Owner	worked example	souce code
Further work	Data base programming with Visual C++
	Known bugs in the program

Tips on debugging programs may be found here.

Hungarian notation should be used for all of the programs.

The recommended text books are :

"Essential Visual C++" - Mickey Williams

"Inside Visual C++ 4" - David J. Kruglinski

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