Thread: C for Windows programming

  1. 03-25-2003 #1
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    C for Windows programming

    C for Windows programming (Win32 API call..) still use by programmers around the world? or the most Programmers use MFC instead of Win32 API?
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    To rephrase your question: Which do more people use to develop Windows-GUI applications: raw Win32 API in C, or the MFC C++ API (which is implemented using the C Win32 API)? Just between the two options, MFC will be used more.

    MFC is a C++ framework based on the Win32 API. If you write applications using MFC, then you will also be using the Win32 API.

    There are C++ framworks like Qt that are platform agnostic and hide the underlying GUI API so you can write applications for X, Mac, or Windows, but MFC is not one of these.

    So to awnser your question, as long as there is MS-Windows, programmers around the world will be using the Win32 API.

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