Re: Future of MFC?

In article
news:<355E980A-39B9-4F69-ADDA-A7438BE701FA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ajay
Kalra wrote:
For regular development, unless you have legacy code, there is no
reason to not use .Net.

You could say that ... but, then again, there is no reason *TO* use
NET. It provides one of a number of frameworks that one can use to
develop applications, but it's FAR from being the only one, and it's
only moderately good.

Its significantly better than MFC/C++ for regular use.

It's good at some things that MFC is not so good at ... but it has
its own drawbacks too. I'd choose MFC over .NET any day if I was
just writing a standard desktop application. Where .NET really comes
into its own is when you need to deploy binaries onto disparate
hardware platforms and where your applications are going to be
untrusted and must run in a sandbox ... and frankly you might as
well use Java for those. .NET is a technically slightly better
solution than Java, but it doesn't have the market penetration (and
the market is not going to benefit from being split between two
inetrmediate-code platforms).

I only recall one or two ads for C++/MFC while C#/.Net is almost
ubiquitous.

Don't judge things by advertising, that's just stupid!

Like any vendor, MS advertises the things that are new -- the things
that they think people don't know about -- far more than that things
that are already well-known. What's the point in telling people
things they know already?

Cheers,
Daniel.




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