MFC Concepts

Discusses the technical details of the MFC Library.

Provides links to using CObject, the base class for most classes in MFC.

Discusses collection classes created from and not created from C++ templates.

Provides links to topics discussing using date and time with MFC.

Discusses CFile and how to handle files in MFC.

Describes how to take advantage of the general-purpose services related to memory management.

Describes how messages and commands are processed by the MFC framework and how to connect them to their handler functions.

Explains the serialization mechanism provided to allow objects to persist between runs of your program.

Describes MFC support for the Unicode standard for encoding wide characters on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP platforms.

Explains the exception-handling mechanisms available in MFC.

Discusses the MFC classes that support Internet programming.

Discusses how to add Internet support to your applications.

Discusses a subset of MFC, which is designed to support COM, while most of the Active Template Library (ATL) is designed for COM programming.

Describes what processes and threads are and discusses the MFC approach to multithreading.

Covers the MFC implementation of Windows Sockets.

Provides reference material for the MFC Library, a set of classes that constitute an application framework, which is the framework of an application written for the Windows API.

Provides links to samples that show how to use MFC in desktop applications, DLLs, database applications, controls, Web applications, and more.