Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 - MFC and Windows 7

The Discussion

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  Yeah there are a lot of native developers out there. We are the silent majority actually.

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  Shh! Don't give it away...

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  Just wondering if all the features Pat talks about are delivered in vs2010 beta 2 ?

   

  For example, about the taskbar interaction, all I have found is CWinApp::EnableTaskbarInteraction(BOOL bEnable), which actually only sets a BOOL flag... which is not used anuwhere else in the MFC code. Or I am missing something ?

   

  Also, I can't open the class wizard now

   

  Anyway the Ribbon designer is really great ! .NET programmers will really be jalous.

   

  www.blogmfc.com (in French)

  http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=Internal&a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.blogmfc.com (automatic translation in English)

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  Charles,

   

  Perhaps you could do a part two that is demo ridden?  It's nice to see some examples of the updates in action.

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  Pat will be making some screencasts.

  C

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  Pat has made some Screencasts:

   

  http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/MFC-Integrating-your-application-with-the-Windows-Restart-Manager/

  http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/MFC-Implementing-handlers-for-preview-thumbnail-and-search-filtering/

  C

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  I always looked at MFC as an outdated, so-so Win32 wrapper BUT i must say, I was really impressed when they resurrected it in the 2008 feature pack.

   

  The docking system, the toolbars, the ribbons, everything works very well and requires very little code to create a very nice looking, native application. Everything is wrapped in a clean way where you dont have to worry about the low-level Win32 stuff that is going on underneath.

   

  I am thrilled to see that they go a step further with VS2010 and I hope MS keeps updating MFC for many years to come. Keep up the good work Pat.

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  nice share,..

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  Good post. You crack me up. Yea, the MFC / Native code world is good.

  I would like to point out that with some good design skills, it's easy to create a generic layer that encapsulates the MFC nitty gritty. I have done that, and now I have an elegant C++ implementation of MVC, driven by an XML language more powerful than XAML.
  
  Anyways, I got the idea from some Silverlight marketing announcement that one can use Silverlight from an MFC application. I can't find anything about it. Did I imagine that, or is this possible?

  

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  Where do i find MFC and is it an add on to visual studios? I am running visual studios 2008 and would like to add MFC. Sorry im pretty new to all of this, please help!