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[Void]

Is the MFC programming language still being used by many people? With the outcome of managed C++ I wouldn't think many people use it and then with a ton of people switching to C# I would think even less people are using it.

[hoser2001]

Isn't MFC something like win32 API? I have heard of it a few times in relation to low level(usually hardware/drivere) support...

[BuildPromoteWin]

Yes.

MFC is still being used. Not for a lot of new development but there is a lot of 10 year old "legacy" C/C++ code out there being maintained by businesses and the use of that code base often dictates that new programs will be coded same as the old programs hence still using MFC.

[Chan]

hoser2001 said:

Isn't MFC something like win32 API? I have heard of it a few times in relation to low level(usually hardware/drivere) support...

Never even heard of it here. What is MFC?

[BuildPromoteWin]

To borrow from Wikipedia --

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Microsoft Foundation Class Library (also Microsoft Foundation Classes, or MFC) is a Microsoft library that wraps portions of the Windows API in C++ classes, forming an application framework. Classes are defined for many of the handle-managed Windows objects and also for predefined windows and common controls.

Basically, it is a bunch of C++ objects to help do Windows programing without having to know all ther API stuff.

[Sionofdarkness]

Well if it eliminates the need for other knowledge, it sounds like a pretty good language.

[Void]

MFC isn't bad. It is more complex than .NET language IMO.