[...]... and support throughout the long gestation period of this book As I have said on many previous occasions, I could not have done it without her Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Programming with Visual C++ 2005 The NET Framework The Common Language Runtime (CLR) Writing C++ Applications Learning Windows Programming Learning C++ The C++ Standards Console Applications Windows Programming Concepts What... Documentation Projects and Solutions xi 1 2 2 3 4 5 5 6 6 8 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 12 12 13 Defining a Project Debug and Release Versions of Your Program Dealing with Errors 13 19 23 Setting Options in Visual C++ 2005 Creating and Executing Windows Applications 27 28 Creating an MFC Application Building and Executing the MFC Application 28 30 Creating a Windows Forms Application Summary 31 35 xiii Contents... and support of the John Wiley & Sons, and Wrox Press editorial and production team in the production of this book, especially Senior Development Editor Kevin Kent who has been there from way back at the beginning and has stayed through to the end I’d also like to thank Technical Editor John Mueller for going through the text to find hopefully most of my mistakes, for checking out all the examples in the... Contents Chapter 14: Drawing in a Window 707 Basics of Drawing in a Window 707 The Window Client Area The Windows Graphical Device Interface What Is a Device Context? Mapping Modes The Drawing Mechanism in Visual C++ The View Class in Your Application The OnDraw() Member Function The CDC Class Displaying Graphics Drawing in Color 708 709 709 709 711 711 711 712 713 717 Drawing Graphics in Practice Programming . Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ ® 2005 Ivor Horton 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page iii 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page ii Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ ® 2005 01_571974. 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page ii Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ ® 2005 Ivor Horton 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page iii Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ ® 2005 Published by Wiley Publishing,. (paper/website) 1. C++ (Computer program language) 2. Microsoft Visual C++. I. Title: Beginning Visual C++ 2005. II. Title. QA76.73.C15I6694 2006 005.13’3—dc22 20050 32051 No part of this publication may be reproduced,