Robert Ramey wrote:
aaaaa .... what do you use instead for development of a C++ windows GUI program?
C++/CLI. It is an extension to C++. It is a RAD language which makes GUI design much easier than MFC. It is a better .Net language than C# and will do .Net GUI using Windows Forms. One can easily mix standard C++ libraries/code with it. But the poster who assumed that Microsoft no longer supports MFC is completely wrong, even though I also dislike MFC. They are actually putting almost all C++ work into MFC, mainly because Microsoft will never allow C++/CLI to seriously compete with their own .Net langauge, C#, even though C++/CLI is a superior .Net language thanks to Herb Sutter.
Robert Ramey
peter_foelsche@agilent.com wrote:
It amazes me, that there are still people working with MFC. It does not make much sense to use MFC, after C++ Exception Handling was introduced in 1995. After C++ Exception Handling was introduced one can use constructors to allocate fallible resources.