The book deals with troublesome, frequently encountered, high-profile tasks chosen with input from Microsoft "RM" support engineers and the user ed/development team at Microsoft. The recommended coding techniques included have been reviewed by key MFC developers.

The topics are sorted into a number of sections -- for example, "Dialog Boxes", "Controls", and "MFC Database Classes". Each section begins with a general descriptive article and then treats a set of common and important developmental challenges. The text is supplemented by a selection of pertinent Knowledge Base articles on disc in a convenient HTML format.