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Lesson 1 -Building Your First Windows Application

1.1 : Creating a Windows Application

1.2 : Creating a Dialog-Based Application

1.3 : Creating DLLs, Console Applications, and More

1.4 : Changing Your AppWizard Decisions
 1.5 : Understanding AppWizard’s Code
 1.6 : Understanding a MDI Application
 1.7 : Understanding the Components of a Dialog-Based Application

Lesson 2 - Dialogs and Controls

2.1 : Understanding Dialog Boxes

2.2 : Creating a Dialog Box Resource

 2.3 : Writing a Dialog Box Class
 2.4 : Using the Dialog Box Class
Lesson 3 - Messages and Commands

3.1 : Understanding Message Routing

3.2 : Understanding Message Loops

 3.3 : Reading Message Maps
 3.4 : Learning How ClassWizard Helps You Catch Messages
 3.5 : Recognizing Messages
 3.6 : Understanding Commands
 3.7 : Understanding Command Updates
 3.8 : Learning How ClassWizard Helps You Catch Commands and Command Updates

Lesson 4 - Documents and Views

4.1 : Understanding the Document Class

4.2 : Understanding the View Class

4.3 : Creating the Rectangles Application

 4.4 : Other View Classes

4.5 : Document Templates, Views, and Frame Windows

Lesson 5 - Drawing on the Screen

5.1 :Understanding Device Contexts

 5.2 : Introducing the Paint1 Application
 5.3 : Building the Paint1 Application
 5.4 : Scrolling Windows
 5.5 : Building the Scroll Application
Lesson 6 - Building a Complete Application: ShowString

6.1 : Building an Application That Displays a String

 6.2 : Building the ShowString Menus
 6.3 : Building the ShowString Dialog Boxes
 6.4 : Making the Menu Work
 6.5 : Making the Dialog Box Work
 6.6 : Adding Appearance Options to the Options Dialog Box
Lesson 7 -  Status Bars and Toolbars

7.1 : Working with Toolbars

 7.2 : Working with Status Bars
Lesson 8 - Common Controls

8.1 : The Progress Bar Control

 8.2 : The Up-Down Control
 8.3 : The Image List Control
 8.4 : The List View Control
 8.5 : The Tree View Control
 8.6 : The Rich Edit Control
 8.7 : The Date Picker Control
 8.8 : Month Calendar Control
 8.9 : Scrolling the View
Lesson 9 - Property Pages and Sheets

9.1 : Introducing Property Sheets

 9.2 : Creating the Property Sheet Demo Application
 9.3 : Running the Property Sheet Demo Application
Lesson 10 - ActiveX Concepts

10.1 : The Purpose of ActiveX

10.2 : Object Linking

10.3 : Object Embedding

 10.4 : Containers and Servers
 10.5 : Toward a More Intuitive User Interface
 10.6 : The Component Object Model  

10.7 : Automation

 10.8 : ActiveX Controls

Lesson 11 -  Building an ActiveX Control

11.1 : Creating a Rolling-Die Control

11.2 : Displaying the Current Value

11.3 : Reacting to a Mouse Click and Rolling the Die 

 11.4 : Creating a Better User Interface
 11.5 : Generating Property Sheets
Lesson 12 - Database Access

12.1 : Understanding Database Concepts

12.2 : Creating an ODBC Database Program

 12.3 : Choosing Between ODBC and DAO
 12.4 : OLE DB

Lesson -10 : ActiveX Concepts

10.2- Object Linking

Figure 10.3 shows a Word document with an Excel spreadsheet linked into it.

Follow these steps to create a similar document yourself:

1. Start Word and enter your text.

2. Click where you want the table to go.

3. Choose Insert, Object.

4. Select the Create from File tab.

5. Enter or select the filename as though this were a File Open dialog box.

6. Be sure to check the Link to File box.

7. Click OK.

The entire file appears in your document. If you make a change in the file on disk, the change is reflected in your document. You can edit the file in its own application by double-clicking it within Word. The other application is launched to edit it, as shown in Figure 10.4. If you delete the file from disk, your Word document still displays what the file last looked like, but you aren’t able to edit it.


FIG. 10.3 A Microsoft Word document can contain a link to an Excel file.

FIG. 10.4 Double-clicking a linked object launches the application that created it.?

You link files into your documents if you plan to use the same file in many documents and contexts, because your changes to that file are automatically reflected everywhere that you have linked it. Linking doesn’t increase the size of your document files dramatically because only the location of the file and a little bit of presentation information needs to be kept in your document.

 

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