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______________________________________________________________________
Browser Toolkit Introduction - README.TXT
Microsoft Visual C++ Browser Toolkit for Windows NT
(C) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1993
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Overview of Toolkit Files
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1 Introduction
Welcome to the Microsoft Visual C++ Browser Toolkit for
Windows NT. This toolkit contains a set of powerful
tools that allow the Visual C++ programmer to
manipulate the contents of browser database (.BSC)
files. These are the very tools used by the Visual
Workbench browser to accomplish its tasks. With the
Visual C++ Browser Toolkit, you can create your own
development tools that take advantage of the vast
amount of information contained in a program's .BSC
file. A .BSC file is a comprehensive database that
contains information about a program's symbols, such as
symbol references, function calltrees, and definition
tables. The size of a Visual C++ program's .BSC file,
which can be many times larger than the actual source
file itself, demonstrates the wealth of information
.BSC files contain. For more information about browser
database files, refer to the Visual Workbench User's
Guide manual provided with the Visual C++
documentation.
The Toolkit's browser library (named BSC.LIB) contains
numerous functions that, for example, search for symbol
matches (given a prefix), generate classtrees,
translate decorated names, and obtain index ranges for
a given object. The Browser Toolkit includes BSCDUMP, a
sample utility that demonstrates the type of
applications you can create using the Toolkit's APIs.
BSCDUMP displays in various formats some of the
information in a browser database file. You can learn
more about this useful utility by viewing the
BSCTUT.TXT file.
The following section outlines this and other files
included in the Browser Toolkit.
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2 Overview of Toolkit Files
The Browser Toolkit consists of two sets of files. The
first set includes files required to build an
application that uses the browser library:
Browser Library Headers
BSC.LIB BSC.H
BSCSUP.H
HUNGARY.H
The second set serves as a reference guide that
includes three documentation files and the sample
application BSCDUMP:
Documentation Files
The following documentation files are provided in
both text (*.TXT) and Microsoft Word (*.DOC) format.
README.TXT Browser Toolkit introduction.
BSCTUT.TXT Tutorial file that discusses the sample
application.
BSCREF.TXT Reference file for the Browser Toolkit API.
Sample Application Files
BSCDUMP.C The application source code.
BSCDUMP.EXE The application executable.
MAKE.BAT A one-line batch file that uses the
Visual C++ compiler and linker to create
a small-model version of BSCDUMP.
To learn more about the Visual C++ Browser Toolkit for
Windows NT and how to use its browser library, refer to
the BSCREF.TXT and BSCTUT.TXT files.