GUI programming, MFC and C#

Hello,

Could someone please tell me the history of GUI programming for
windows. In the early days, we had to write 100s of lines of code to
make a simple dialog box. Then along came MFC to simplify things. And
now, finally we have visual C#.NET.
Is that right? Is there anything else to it? Can someone please guide
me to some link form where I can get to know how things evolved from
pre-MFC to MFC to where we are now.


Now...here is my problem....I have an application which was made years
back. Its GUI has been written using MFC. Now I need to make some
changes and make a newer verison of it. But for that I will have to
teach myself MFC (I am familiar with C#). The only advantage of using
MFC is that MUCH of the earlier code will be reused. Is there any way
to get around this? I really wish I could write the GUI in C# and still
reuse the code of the precious stuff.

Thanks
Siddharth

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