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Title: I read the book and passed the test - NOT related events!
Review: While the book does a good job of cleaning up the extraneous test details (contents of different VC++ editions, formal titles of the debugging stages) it is useless for core competenices (COM and Active X). Here are a couple of my favorites:"Source code is the programming code you write that makes your program actually do things". A review bullet ... on page 95!35 pages about SourceSafe, MS's source code control tool. 1 paragrpaph about how to use sockets (I guess networks are just a fad).With assorted extraneous errors ('CHttpInternetConnection is the base class for internet connections') and code samples that don't work (pretty much everything from Chapter 7 "Creating a COM component") this book will certainly keep you on your feet.BOTTOM LINE - Don't depend on this book! I learned A LOT more from 'teach yourself VC++ in 21 days'. This book is nice if you have a lot of extra time to learn trivial VC++ details.
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