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MFC Concepts
This section provides conceptual and task-based topics to help you program using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library.
General MFC Topics Discusses the technical details of the MFC Library.
MFC Overview Provides links to topics discussing the programming you can do with MFC.
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 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.