Over the last year I have been focusing my learning towards C++ . I have always thought of C++ as somewhat of a dark art and compared to .Net, C++ is far more complicated to work with because you are working at a much deeper level. I have completed a couple of online courses to learn more about the syntax and I have also produced small applications which include the Motiviator app and the Particle Explosion app. I wanted to go onto the next level by implementing a GUI, so I decided to build an email parser program using C++ MFC. I learnt a lot when designing this program and I learnt about the importance of threading and memory management when building GUI applications.

The email parser will check email from a specified mailbox using an external library, and then the program will parse the information to execute other operations. The program will also detect keywords in the email recieved and do specified actions depending on the keywords.

This was a fun program to make!

Last updated, January 2020