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From: harry_bosch (harry_at_bosch.org)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:57:52 -0800

"Michael T" <anonymous@nospam-att.net> wrote:

> But the changes to some features such as 'pane management, lack of a
> Class Wizard and being unable to tile two source files horizontally
> (or vertically) deserves no better than a C+.

You can get the old MDI behavior through Tools/Options/Environment/General.
Select "MDI environment" and it should be similar to or just like VC6 for
tiling windows, etc.

> For example, I still
> have difficulty managing the adding of message handlers (and
> especially deleting them) since Class Wizard was phased out.

You've no doubt discovered that it is to be done through Properties now.
I'm not a big-time MFC guy, so it hasn't affected me greatly, but in the
few MFC projects I've done, I found the new method workable enough.

I quit using some of the new features because they would create
bogus/incorrect code (such as adding a variable to a class). Once I find a
feature misbehaving, I quit using it, otherwise I must always remember to
go back and check that it was done correctly. Might as well do it myself
when it gets that way, and know that it's right. Imagine a text editor
that, 1 out of every 10 times, didn't save your file correctly. You'd soon
quit using it, wouldn't you? That's exactly how I feel about some of the
features in VS.NET. They might work 9 out of 10 times, but it's not worth
the trouble of always having to check if this was that one time that it
won't perform correctly.

> Finally as a humorous aside "What in the world does deprecated mean?"
> I have yet to find a decent definition.

Questions such as this have been deprecated in this forum :-) 

-- 
harry

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