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BEGINNING VISUAL C ++® 2012
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv
CHAPTER 1

Programming with Visual C++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER 2

Data, Variables, and Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

CHAPTER 3

Decisions and Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

CHAPTER 4

Arrays, Strings, and Pointers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

CHAPTER 5

Introducing Structure into Your Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

CHAPTER 6

More about Program Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

CHAPTER 7

Defining Your Own Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

CHAPTER 8

More on Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

CHAPTER 9

Class Inheritance and Virtual Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

CHAPTER 10

The Standard Template Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

CHAPTER 11

Windows Programming Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

CHAPTER 12

Windows Programming
with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

CHAPTER 13

Working with Menus and Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

CHAPTER 14

Drawing in a Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

CHAPTER 15

Improving the View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

CHAPTER 16

Working with Dialogs and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

CHAPTER 17

Storing and Printing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815

CHAPTER 18

Programming Windows 8 Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

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