Re: Visual C++ 6 support issue

From: Joseph M. Newcomer (newcomer_at_flounder.com)
Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 00:49:40 -0400

Actually, yes, there are some classes that make it easier to create Windows Services.
However, that's not a particularly difficult thing to do anyway. And these are features of
MFC, not of the IDE, which is where most of the problems are in VS7. If anything, I resent
the fact that the intolerable interface interferes with using these new features (one of
my clients actually requires an MFC feature not available in VS6, and they absolutely HATE
VS7, but they have to use it to get this feature)

A couple useful features that MFC7 has is the ability to use CString without buying into
all of MFC, and the ability to have a mix of 8-bit and 16-bit CStrings. But these are MFC
enhancements, which could have easily been done in VS6. That's why I'm trying to keep
separate the notions of what MFC does and what the interface looks like. There are a lot
of good features in the MFC that comes with VS7, but they are unrelated to the interface
that the user gets.
                                joe

On Fri, 14 May 2004 22:29:08 -0600, Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@taeus.us> wrote:

>In article <773162FA-1B5B-478A-BC1A-0CDD133F025A@microsoft.com>,
>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...
>> What about being able to create services? I heard that you need 7 for that.
>> Is that true?
>
>Presumably you mean web services, not Win32 services (which you can
>build with anything back to VC++ 2).
>
>Officially support for web services was new with VS 7. Less
>officially, you could build web services with VS 6 and the beta
>versions of the .NET SDK.

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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