Expanding what’s widely considered the definitive exposition of Microsoft's powerful C++ class library for the Microsoft® Windows® API, 'Programming Windows with MFC', Second Edition, fully updates the classic original with all-new coverage of COM, OLE, and ActiveX®. Author Jeff Prosise deftly builds your comprehension of underlying concepts and essential techniques for MFC programming with unparalleled expertise - once again delivering the consummate resource for rapid, object-oriented development on 32-bit Windows platforms. Coverage includes - Fundamentals of event-driven programming and MFC; Document/view architecture; Bitmaps, palettes, and regions; Multithreading and thread synchronization; MFC and the Component Object Model (COM); OLE Automation and OLE drag-and-drop; ActiveX controls.