1. Windows Development
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2. Dynadata Software Development with MFC Library
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3. Collections
MFC provides collection classes based on C++ templates, which makes it easier to derive one's own type-safe collection classes.
MFC provided two types of collection classes to manage groups of objects: collection classes that are created from C++ templates; and Collection classes that are not created from templates.
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4. Dynadata Collections II
A collection class is characterized by its shape and by the types of its elements.
The shape refers to the way the objects are organized and stored by the collection.
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5. Dynadata Collections III MFC provides three basic collection shapes:
Lists
Arrays
Maps (also known as dictionaries)
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6. Lists
The list class provides an ordered, non indexed list of elements, implemented as a doubly linked list.
A list has a "head" and a "tail," and adding or removing elements from the head or tail, or inserting or deleting elements in the middle, is very fast.
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7. Arrays
The array class provides a dynamically sized, ordered, and integer-indexed array of objects.
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8. Maps
A map is a collection that associates a key object with a value object.
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9. Templates
The easiest way to implement a type-safe collection that contains objects of any type is to use one of the MFC template-based classes.
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10. Templates II
To create a dynamically sized array of "doubles," or a list of CPerson objects use C++ template syntax:
CArray<double, double> myArray;
CList<CPerson, CPerson&> myList;
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11. Collection Shape Features
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