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- From: qp7@teleport.com (QP7)
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- Subject: Re: Borland 4.5 C++ Books
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 01:56:44 GMT
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- tfarage@utdallas.edu (Timothy Farage) wrote:
-
- >What would be a good book to learn how to develop Windows (3.1 or
- >Windows 95) applications under Borland 4.51 C++? Also, what are the
- >differences between Borland 4.51 & Borland 4.52?
-
- >Timothy Farage
- >tfarage@utdallas.edu
-
- The first C++ book I ever read was Using Borland C++ 4.5 (ISBN
- 0-7897-0072-7) by QUE publishing, and it was real good. It gets you
- started with API programming, DLLs, and the Borland OWL. I didn't
- understand it the first time through because it was a little over my
- head, but when I read it again (after getting familiar with C++) I got
- it.
-
- There's also a book called Schildt's Windows95 Programming in C and
- C++ (ISBN 0-07-882081-2) that's good but not great. It's extreemely
- easy to understand and it goes into *fairly* good detail on 32-bit
- windows programming. It's lacking in several areas in that it only
- covers 32-bit controls and a few basic concepts, and it doesn't go
- into depth on programming an application. In other words, I've never
- seen so many trivial examples in my life. But I'm glad I read it.
- One thing -- he approaches it from the Visual C++ 2.0 approach so
- everything doesn't apply. There's a couple minor differences (like
- casting a call to the dialog box function to DLGPROC), and the tab
- control isn't supported under Borland 4.5x (as far as I know). But I
- still recommend it.
-
- As for the difference between 4.51 and 4.52... notaclue.
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