Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

Foreword

“Yes!” That was how I felt when I started reading the proofs of this book. This is the first book I have seen that explains very clearly how Visual C++ developers can use the .NET Framework right now to increase their productivity in writing new MFC applications and enhancing existing ones. It addresses very successfully the mechanics of how you start using .NET APIs from your MFC applications. It explains where the feature our team called IJW (It Just Works), really just works and where you need to coax it across some pitfalls. But this book dispenses with that in short order and then goes straight to the real meat of selecting specific API sets from the vast breadth of the .NET Framework and explaining how to use them from your MFC ...