Everything about Microsoft Foundation Class Library

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Microsoft Foundation Class LibraryA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Applications = Code + MarkupThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Integration of the Standard Template Library and the Microsoft Foundation ClassCited 0 times
4. Go sideways: Object Windows LibraryA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Windows FormsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Integration of the Standard Template Library and the Microsoft Foundation Class

  Paul Wolfgang, Yang Song · 1999 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Applications = Code + MarkupCharles Petzold · 2006
• Windows Programming, Under the Hood of MFCLaura B. Draxler · 1997
• Introduction to MFC Programming with Visual C++Richard M. Jones · 1999
• MFC programming from the ground upHerbert Schildt · 1996
• Peter Norton's guide to Windows 95/NT 4 programming with MFCPeter Norton · 1996
• Microsoft masteringMicrosoft Press · 2000
• 📕Windows programmer's guide to Microsoft foundation class libraryNamir Clement Shammas · 1992
• Extending the MFC libraryDavid A. Schmitt · 1996

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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