Review Concepts in C

• Usages of Pointers
•  Pointer to functions- Callbacks
• Calling Conventions
• A case study using Callbacks

Windows Programming Mode

•  Windows Software Architecture
• Event-Driven Programming
• Messages and Message Encapsulation
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Programming
• About VC++ IDE
• Window Programming in C-SDK Style
• Notations and Naming Conventions
• Windows Libraries and APIs
• Resources and Resource Types 

The first Windows SDK style Program

• Understanding the WinMain
•  Use of Callback Functions
• Message processing using Window Procedure
• Keyboard Basics
• Mouse Basics
• Client area mouse messages, Non Client Area Mouse Messages
• Timer Basics

Introduction to Resources

• Windows Resources Overview
• About Resource Compiler
• Icons, Cursors, and Bitmaps
• Toolbars and Status Bars
• Strings and Fonts
• Menu concepts, Menus and messages
• Floating popup Menus, Keyboard accelerators
• Dialog Resource
• Creating a Dialog (Modal and Modeless)

Child Windows Controls

• Creating Child Windows
• Message Communication between parent and Child window
• Child Window controls
• Push, Check, radio group boxes, edit, list classes

The Graphics Device Interface

• Introduction to GDI
• Device Contexts
• GDI Drawing Tools and Attributes
• GDI Coordinate Systems and Mapping Modes
• Regions and Clipping
• Drawing Functions
• Text Functions, Font, Colors
• Pens and Brushes
• Painting the window
• Handling WM_PAINT message
• Bitmaps and DIBs 

Review Concepts in C++

• OOPs concepts
• Classes & objects
• Access privileges
• Polymorphism
• Constructors & Destructor's
• Inheritance
• Virtual Functions
• Templates

MFC Programming Model

• MFC Design philosophy
•  MFC Class Hierarchy
•  MFC and Application Framework
• MFC and Message Maps
•  First MFC Application
• Usage of Application Object
• Usage of Window Object
• Message Map MACROS

The Mouse and Keyboard

• Processing Mouse Events
• Processing of Keyboard Events
•  A Sample Program

Menus, Toolbars and Status Bar

• Creating a Menu
• Responding to Menu Commands
• Synchronization of Menu items
• Accelerators
• Creating ToolBar and Status Bar
• A sample Program

Graphics Device Interface

• About GDI Objects
• Cbrush, Cpen, Cbitmap, Cpallette and Cregion
• Using Device Context
•  Painting in a Window
•  Handling WM_PAINT
• A Sample Program

MFC Controls

• MFC Control Classes
• Cbutton, Cstatic, ClistBox, Ccombox
• A Sample Program
• Modifying Control Attributes
• Adding KeyBoard interface
• Modifying Control Behaviors
• Bitmap Buttons
• Changing Control Colors
• Control Notifications
• Scrollbar Controls
• A sample Program

Common Controls

• Creating a common Control
• Spin Buttons, Progress Bars, Sliders and Tooltip Controls
• ImageList, TreeView and ListView Controls
• Header Control, Tab control, Custom-Draw Controls, Control Views and Edit Controls
• Processing Notifications
• A sample Program

Dialog Boxes and Property Sheets

•  CDialog Class
• Modal Dialog Boxes
• Modeless Dialog BoxesBinding the Dialog Control to Variable
• DDX, DDV
• Sample Program
• Bitmaps
• Working with Resource BitMap
• Displaying the Bitmap
• GDI Bitmaps Object
• Saving and Restoring DIB Bits from bmp file
• Property Sheets
• CPropertySheet and CPropertyPage Classes
• Handling the Apply Button
• A Sample Program
• Using Activex Controls in Dialog Boxes

Document/View Architecture

• The Document/View Model
• Document and View Classes
• Document Templates
• Saving and Loading Documents
• Using Multiple Views
• SDI and MDI Application Styles
• Decoupling Document and View
• Navigating the Classes 

MDI and Multiple Views

• SDI vs. MDI Applications
• Multiple View Types
• Multiple Views under SDI and MDI
• Document Templates
• Instancing a View
• Adding a New Document Class  

Splitter Windows

• Static and Dynamic Split Views
• Creating a Dynamic Split Window
• Add a Dynamic Splitter as a Separate MDI View
• Integrating a Static Split Window
• Synchronizing Document and Views 

Serialization and Persistent Documents

• CArchive Object
• Document Serialization
• Serializing Pointers
• Creating Persistent Classes
• Serializing CObject Pointers
• Serializing Collections 

Database Programming

• MFC Capabilities
• The Jet Engine
• MFC Database Classes
• Using CRecordView
• Overview of SQL
• DAO
• What is DAO.
• DAO Objects
• DAO Classes
• AppWizard and ClassWizard Support
• Browsing, Adding, Updating and Deleting Records
• ODBC
• What is ODBC.
• ODBC Administration
• ODBC Classes
• AppWizard & Class Wizard Support
• Browsing, Adding, Updating and Deleting using CRecordSet

Threads and Thread Synchronization

• Fundamentals of threads and MultiThreaded Programming
• Overview of WIN32 Threading API
• Overview of MFC’s Cwin Thread
• Creation of Worker Thread
• Suspending and resuming the thread
• Thread priorities and Termination of Threads
• A sample Program
• Creating an user interface Thread
• A sample Program
• Thread Local Storage
• Thread Synchronization
• Need Thread Synchronization
• Using Thread Synchronization Object
• Events
• Critical Section
• Mutex
• Semaphore
• Issue to consider in writing a thread safe program
• A sample program

Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLLs)

• Fundamentals of DLLs
• Name mangling in C++
• Exporting the functions
• Using module DEF file
• Using _declspec (dllexport) keyword
• Initialization of DLL
• About DLLMain(..)
• Developing DLLs
• Regular DLL
• WIN32 DLLs
• MFC AppWiard DLLs
• Implicit Loading
• Explicit Loading of DLLs
• Understanding LoadLibrary Call
• Sample Program
• MFC Extension DLL
• Sample Program
• Creating UI in DLLs

Network Programming

• Fundamentals of Networking
• About BSD socket Library
• About WINSOCK
• Sockets and Socket Programming
• Connection Oriented (TCP) programming
• Multi Threaded Server
• A sample program