{"id":396,"date":"2007-11-11T23:25:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2007-11-11T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:25:57","slug":"huge-update-to-mfc-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/396-huge-update-to-mfc-unveiled.html","title":{"rendered":"Huge update to MFC unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Herb Sutter has <a href=\"http:\/\/herbsutter.spaces.live.com\/Blog\/cns!2D4327CC297151BB!343.entry\">more details<\/a> on the &#8220;massive update&#8221; to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), about which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=303\">I blogged back in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The focus seems to be on UI features, including Vista themes, Office 2007 Ribbon-alike, new dialogs, task panes, docking, tabbing, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>How big an update is this? Here&#8217;s what Sutter says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This update nearly doubles the size of MFC. Now, &#8220;nearly doubles the size of X&#8221; can be a bad thing. In this case, though, it&#8217;s a Good Thing&#8230; in my opinion, at least.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MFC was originally designed as a thin C++ wrapper for the Windows API, which accounts for its ugliness when considered purely as an application framework. I don&#8217;t know if the update fixes any of those underlying issues, but it will be handy for developers who need a quick route to an up-to-date Windows UI.<\/p>\n<p>I interpret this as Microsoft acknowledging the continuing importance of native code versus .NET programming, though personally I would still rather use CodeGear&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codegear.com\/products\/delphi\">Delphi<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b6656fd6-a14b-4551-a93e-1cc4d42a22f8\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\">Technorati tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mfc\">mfc<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/visual%20c++\">visual c++<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\">microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Herb Sutter has more details on the &#8220;massive update&#8221; to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), about which I blogged back in August. The focus seems to be on UI features, including Vista themes, Office 2007 Ribbon-alike, new dialogs, task panes, docking, tabbing, and so on. How big an update is this? Here&#8217;s what Sutter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/396-huge-update-to-mfc-unveiled.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huge update to MFC unveiled<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}