Introduction to Windows
The history of Windows and the architecture of the different Windows versions.

The Microsoft Foundation Classes
- The Visual C++ Development 
  Environment and its wizardry
- What is provided by the MFC 
  Class Library and its 
  Document/View Architecture

Messages & Message Maps
- How Messages are handled in 
  MFC
- Applications, including Menus, 
  Dialogs and Toolbars
- The use of Class Wizard, and the 
  MFC
- Class Hierarchy in more detail

Other MFC Features
This chapter explores MFC features not directly related to Windows such as collection classes and serialisation.

Scrolling & Splitting
A closer look at the Document/ View architecture including multiple document types and views and the use of scrolling and splitter windows.

Dialogs
- The dialog classes and 
  architecture together with the 
  data exchange and validation 
  techniques provided by MFC and 
  the Class Wizard
- Using Standard and Custom 
  Controls

Graphics, Text & Printing
Covers the Graphical Device Interface (GDI and the Class Wrappers and Member Functions provided, including Text Manipulation and Device Independent Printing.

Extending the Document/ View Architecture
- Creating Additional Child, 
  Popup and Overlapped 
  Windows
- Adding Additional Views and 
  Documents
- Window Management

Messaging
- Application Defined Messages
- Registering Unique Messages
- Sending and Posting Messages
- Extending the Message Map

Multitasking
The use of threads and processes in applications, including the use of a thread as an MFC object. Priorities, priority classes and the scheduler.

Intertask Communication
- Cut, Copy, Paste and the 
  Clipboard
- ActiveX Automation, COM and 
  DCOM

Dynamic Linking
- Using and Writing Dynamic 
  Link Libraries
- Initialization and Termination
- Thread Local Storage

Using Databases
- Open DataBase Connectivity 
  (ODBC), Data
- Access Objects (DAO) and OLE 
  DB
- The MFC Database Classes 
  and Wizard support, and how 
  these can be used to produce 
  simple Form-Based 
  Applications with no 
  programmer effort as well as 
  more sophisticated 
  applications.