Software Engineering and Computer Games

20.4. The Visual Studio help files

As well as special types, Windows MFC programming uses a lot of special classes, all of whose names start with uppercase C. There are scores of these classes, and they own perhaps thousands of function methods, and every time Windows is upgraded more of them are born.

A quick way to find help on some particular Windows expression such as a class or function name is to click on it in your code and then press F1. Another way is to select Help | Index and type it in. If you use Help | Search you will often get a lot more references than are practical to sift through, but if you need some really obscure kind of information, this is the way to go.

We should mention that, unless you have installed the documentation ...