Mfc??

What exactly is MFC??

I see it all around the forums and its also included in Visual C++ .net that I am using now.

What so special about it??? :confused:

Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is a programming library for building Windows applications. Basically it's a collection of wrapper classes around the Win32 API to make Windows programming easier.

How would that make it different from Win32 then? From what I know, I thought that win32 is an API for creating Window Application??

So MFC is built on top of Win32?

So we have to include the library for MFC? Where can we get that? Is it only included in Visual Studio/C++??


BTW is <windows.h> the Win32 API?

MFC is a wrapper for the win32 api, to make it easier (?!?) to program in windows. Another similar wrapper is Borlands VCL and CLX, these are in my opinion easier to develope in, but suffer in performance (but it might be Borlands IDE that makes for easy developement hehe :). CLX has the great(!!!) advantage that it is portable to linux :) write a program on windows and compile it on a linux machine, and voila: the same program can run on both machines.

What makes MFC different from the Win32 API. Since MFC uses the win32 api, you can see MFC as an tool for you to use to create win32 apps easier. You can still use direct win32 api calls from MFC applications if you like. This, you can also do in Borland C++ builder.

Well don't know if that made any sence. It's early in the morning and i'm still working... hehe... :)

Thanks for that! Makes sense now....

Another question of mine is what library do we include? Since MFC is Microsoft's, can we just get the library freely, without the IDE to use it?

I am going to try some simple windows programming :)

Thanks alot again!:D