Appendix B:MFC Document/View architecture – a short introduction

Most of the source code in this book uses Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). If you have never done any MFC programming then you may find the approach strange. The purpose of this short appendix is to get you started with MFC programming. If you intend to use MFC in your own programs then I recommend getting a good MFC book (check Appendix C for some suggestions); this is just a quick introduction.

Creating a Dialog-based application

When you start up Visual C++ and choose to create a new workspace, you can select ‘MFC AppWizard (exe)’ to create an MFC application. Having chosen your project's name and selected OK, you are faced with the first of several boxes in the application ...

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