MFC Concepts

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This section provides conceptual and task-based topics to help you program using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library.

In This Section

  • General MFC Topics
    Discusses the technical details of the MFC Library.

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

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

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

  • Files in MFC
    Discusses CFile and how to handle files in MFC.

  • Memory Management (MFC)
    Describes how to take advantage of the general-purpose services related to memory management.

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

  • Serialization in MFC
    Explains the serialization mechanism provided to allow objects to persist between runs of your program.

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

  • Exception Handling (MFC)
    Explains the exception-handling mechanisms available in MFC.

  • MFC Internet Programming Basics
    Discusses the MFC classes that support Internet programming.

  • MFC Internet Programming Tasks
    Discusses how to add Internet support to your applications.

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

  • Multithreading with C++ and MFC
    Describes what processes and threads are and discusses the MFC approach to multithreading.

  • Windows Sockets in MFC
    Covers the MFC implementation of Windows Sockets.

  • MFC Reference
    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.

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