Author Description

Learning to write and reuse software components yields enormous gains in programmer productivity and application performance and reliability. Plugging in tested code for proven components saves time across all phases of development and testing. Sharing components provides consistent behavior across applications, and fixing a bug in component code repairs all applications that use it.Steal This Code! is an ultra-functional handbook of C and C++/MFC techniques for creating reusable code components providing Windows 95 and Windows NT programmers with the tools they need to develop efficient, reusable code modules and libraries. This book walks readers through the steps involved in creating Win32, MFC, and OLE control components, then applies these techniques through numerous practical examples.The included disk contains a library of components developed by the author that use the techniques demonstrated in the book - a library that readers can plunder at will when creating individual drop-in code modules.