Is VS2008 a good environment?

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First I admit that I am pretty new to VS, even though I have many
years' experience in other languages and environments.

Upon programming VS2008 using win32 and C++, I find that it is not
straight forward to do lots of things. And most of the problems are
pretty basic.

For instance, if you want a nearly complete OOP, you need to create
your own AppWin class that is used as a container of everything. You
can include all other classes in it and do everything. That is, AppWin
is a factory that includes all mathinary and tools and workers to
produce certain products. But there are problems.

For instance, the default WindowProc which processes messages has to
be defined STATIC, which makes everything difficult because you can
not use non-static (instance) members in the function. You have to
tweak it and turn it into a non-static function. Why? Why M$ doesn't
do this for our programmers automatically? Pretty stupid M$. And it is
against OOP logic.

The other thing is that implementing thread to a member function is
not straight forward, either. And again you have to tweak it to make
it to be able to use non-static members.

Every windows app needs to process messages, nearly every windows app
needs to have their threads, and non of these are straight forward in
VS. Isn't it stupid?

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