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01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page iii Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2005 Ivor Horton 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page ii 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page i Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2005 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page ii 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page iii Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2005 Ivor Horton 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page iv Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2005 Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2006 by Ivor Horton Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-7197-8 ISBN-10: 0-7645-7197-4 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/QY/QS/QW/IN Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Horton, Ivor. Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ 2005 / Ivor Horton. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-7197-8 (paper/website) ISBN-10: 0-7645-7197-4 (paper/website) 1. C++ (Computer program language) 2. Microsoft Visual C++. I. Title: Beginning Visual C++ 2005. II. Title. QA76.73.C15I6694 2006 005.13’3—dc22 2005032051 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, (317) 572-3447, fax (317) 572-4355, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. 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Visual C++ is a registered trademark of Microsoft Cor- poration in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page v Credits Executive Editor Vice President and Executive Publisher Bob Elliott Joseph B. Wikert Senior Development Editor Project Coordinator Kevin Kent Ryan Steffen Graphics and Production Specialists Development Editor Brian Drumm Howard Jones Lauren Goddard Brooke Graczyk Technical Editor Denny Hager John Mueller Joyce Haughey Jennifer Heleine Production Editor Stephanie D. Jumper Pamela Hanley Barry Offringa Alicia South Copy Editor Erin Zeltner Susan Hobbs Quality Control Technicians Laura Albert Editorial Manager John Greenough Mary Beth Wakefield Leeann Harney Production Manager Proofreading Tim Tate TECHBOOKS Production Services Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Indexing Richard Swadley Infodex Indexing Services Inc. 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page vi 01_571974 ffirs.qxp 1/20/06 11:22 PM Page ix About the Author Ivor Hortongraduated 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 implementation 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 present 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.