Large and confusing wizard results

With MFC, one can use the wizard to generate a template from which one can proceed to code. Especially for a beginner like me this is a necessary tool. However such a template consists of a large amount of code which is hard to understand an makes it really difficult to understand MFC at the beginning. In the following is an example for a project using a Dialog-based-application. All other variants like SDI or MDI contain...

How to end the application

From Visual Basic I knew the simple command “end” to exit the application. A search in MSDN with similar phrases did not lead to a solution how to end a MFC application. The solution is the command following command, which calls a WM_DESTROY message: PostQuitMessage(0);

Books to read

I have searched a while and asked in several web groups for a good introduction to MFC with VS 2005. Unfortunately there is no new book specialized for VS 2005 and MFC excluding .Net (which I am not interested in at all). I was advised to take a look at “Programming Windows with MFC (1999)” from Jeff Proise. Unfortunately it is not only written for Visual Studio V. 6, which is not that bad since MFC has not...

C++ with MFC

My Phd-thesis at the university requires some programms to be developed. Some of them are primilary a device control while others are algorithms with a basic interface. Due to other programms and libaries developed in my research group being written in VC++ with MFC I started to develop with that API as well. Here I want to start a little series which contains mainly my notes on programming with that API. If I should...