Visual C++ 6.0 Desktop And Distributed Application Development With The Platform SDK

5 days

Overview

Students will learn how to develop advanced desktop and distributed Windows applications using the Platform SDK and Visual C++. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for Visual C++ at the Expert level. This course will help the student partially prepare for the Microsoft 70-016 MCSD exam titled "Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0" and the 70-015 exam titled "Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0." This course is also appropriate for IT Professionals interested in general Visual C++ 6.0 developer skills training.

Prerequisites

To gain the most from this course, the student should be able to Use the Windows user interface. Preferably use the user interface of the Visual C++ 6.0 integrated development environment. Use the basic features of the C++ programming language.

Target Student

Visual Basic, C++, and Java programmers with at least one year of practical experience who want to learn C# programming.

Win32 Processes and Threads

Creating and Managing Processes
Understanding Virtual Memory

Win32 DLLs

Understanding DLLs
Understanding DllMain
Exporting from a DLL
Understanding Load-time and Runtime DynamicLinking
Sharing Memory Between Processes Using DLLs
Implementing Thread Local Storage
Creating Resource-only DLLs

The File System and File IO

Creating, Opening, Reading, and Writing Files
Lempel-Ziv Compressed Files
File Security
Locking Files
File and Directory Operations

Inter-process Communication

Inter-process Communication Using Named Pipes
Inter-process Communication Using Mailslots
Inter-process Communication Using RPC
Inter-process Communication Using Sockets
Inter-process Communication Using Shared Memory
Using Windows Messages Between Local Processes
Using Anonymous Pipes Between Local Processes
Implement Internet Clients with the WinInetAPI

Security and Encryption

Understanding Kernel Object Security
Understanding CryptoAPI

Database Access

Working with SQL
Programming with the ODBC API

Performance Measurement and Tuning

Process Viewer
Performance Monitor
Performance Statistics
Profiling Visual C++ Applications

Developing Online Help

WinHelp and HTML Help

Win32 GUI Programming

Implementing a Win32 GUI Application
Creating Windows Instances
Windows Messages
Working with Resources

Additional Non-GUI Topics

Understanding Unicode
Using Structured Exception Handling
Using the Win32 Registry API
Building and Installing an NT Service
Installing Hooks
Understanding Event Logging