Ivor Horton's beginning Visual C++ 2005

Ivor Horton’s

Beginning Visual C++® 2005

Ivor Horton

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Ivor Horton’s

Beginning Visual C++® 2005

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Ivor Horton’s

Beginning Visual C++® 2005

Ivor Horton

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Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2005

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Copyright © 2006 by Ivor Horton

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Credits

Executive Editor

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Senior Development Editor

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Development Editor

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About the Author

Ivor Horton graduated as a mathematician and was lured into information technology by promises of

great rewards for very little work. In spite of the reality being usually a great deal of work for relatively

modest rewards, he has continued to work with computers to the present day. He has been engaged at

various times in programming, systems design, consultancy, and the management of the implementa￾tion of projects of considerable complexity.

Horton has many years of experience in the design and implementation of computer systems applied to

engineering design and to manufacturing operations in a variety of industries. He also has considerable

experience in developing occasionally useful applications in a wide variety of programming languages,

and of teaching primarily scientists and engineers to do likewise. He has written books on programming

for more than 10 years; his currently published works include tutorials on C, C++, and Java. At the pre￾sent time, when he is not writing programming books or providing advice to others, he spends his time

fishing, travelling, and trying to speak better French.

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This book is dedicated to Alexander Gilbey. I look forward to his comments,

but I’ll probably have to wait a while.

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Acknowledgments

I’d like to acknowledge the efforts and support of the John Wiley & Sons, and Wrox Press editorial and

production team in the production of this book, especially Senior Development Editor Kevin Kent who

has been there from way back at the beginning and has stayed through to the end. I’d also like to thank

Technical Editor John Mueller for going through the text to find hopefully most of my mistakes, for

checking out all the examples in the book, and for his many constructive comments that helped make

the book a better tutorial.

Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Eve, for her patience, cheerfulness, and support throughout the

long gestation period of this book. As I have said on many previous occasions, I could not have done it

without her.

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