Re: MFC future?

Omigod! Not Another Futhre Of MFC Question....!!!!

It lives. It is supported. It does not appear to be going away any time soon.

Note that ".NET" is *NOT* the opposite of "MFC", and I'm not sure how this interpretation
ever got started. In fact, MFC is absoultely compatible with several varying
interpretations of whatever ".NET" might mean to you. C# is *not* ".NET"; C# is a
programming language. It just happens to be more easily compatible with certain
interpretations of .NET than MFC is (you have to do a little more work in MFC to meet the
criteria). I'm not even sure what "learning .NET" even means! Do you mean certain kinds
of component architecture, or something to do with manifests, or something to do with XML,
or what? I have yet to figure out what ".NET" means, except I know a lot of pieces of
technology that form the .NET infrastructure. Many are orthogonal to each other, and
independent of the programming language used (C#, MFC, VB, Cobol, etc.)
joe

On 30 Nov 2005 07:18:17 -0800, "NewbProgrammer" <paul_kiefer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'm a home programmer who occasionally does programming for work using
>MFCs. I have not yet had a chance to look at VS 2005. Are there
>changes to MFCs? It seems Microsoft is heavily pushing .NET. Is MFC
>slowly being phased out? (Do I finally have to learn .NET?) Any
>guidance from the professionals out there?
>Thanks,
>Paul
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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