Write Portable Code for Windows

MFC is an application framework designed for rapid Windows development. Visual C++ for Intel x86, Alpha, and PowerPC are all Windows NT-based. They are designed to be portable among each other. MFC's job is to make C++ code universal on these platforms by wrapping the system-dependent code, such as messages, and your applications should port easily among the platforms. In most cases, a Visual C++ application created in the development environment on one of these platforms can be opened in the development environment on another platform and the conversion is done automatically. See Porting to and from Non-Intel Platforms.