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Dave Cullen - 28 Jan 2007 00:19 GMT

Creating my first Dialog MFC app using VC.NET. I'm used to VC6. Where's
the Class Wizzard? How do I assign variables to controls ( like CStrings
to static text boxes)? And what happened to WM_INITDIALOG? Is there
somewhere else to put initialization stuff now?

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David Lowndes - 28 Jan 2007 09:48 GMT

>Creating my first Dialog MFC app using VC.NET. I'm used to VC6. Where's
>the Class Wizzard?

Dave,

Have a look at the "Where Are ClassWizard and WizardBar in Visual C++
.NET?" topic in MSDN.

Some of the functionality is in the different guises of the property
pane - those cryptic buttons!

Dave Lowndes

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Bruno van Dooren [MVP VC++] - 28 Jan 2007 11:31 GMT

> >Creating my first Dialog MFC app using VC.NET. I'm used to VC6. Where's
>>the Class Wizzard?
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> Some of the functionality is in the different guises of the property
> pane - those cryptic buttons!

At the VC talk on tech-ed Barcelona, Steve Texeira mentioned that there was
renewed effort on improving the IDE for native C++ development. One of the
things they are looking at is bringing back some of that stuff. They are
working on a class designer. Don't know if a new MFC class wizard was in the
works though.

That is the only thing about VC6 that I still miss from time to time.

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David Wilkinson - 28 Jan 2007 12:07 GMT

> At the VC talk on tech-ed Barcelona, Steve Texeira mentioned that there was
> renewed effort on improving the IDE for native C++ development. One of the
> things they are looking at is bringing back some of that stuff. They are
> working on a class designer.

Yes, this is really exciting. Can we have it tomorrow? :)

> Don't know if a new MFC class wizard was in the works though.
> That is the only thing about VC6 that I still miss from time to time.

What about the fact that it never hangs or crashes. And had six (count
'em) service packs? Did you like that? :)

David Wilkinson

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Bruno van Dooren [MVP VC++] - 29 Jan 2007 18:11 GMT

>> Don't know if a new MFC class wizard was in the works though.
>> That is the only thing about VC6 that I still miss from time to time.
>
> What about the fact that it never hangs or crashes. And had six (count
> 'em) service packs? Did you like that? :)

I did in fact like the fact that there were more regular SPs, but otoh, I
have to say that I had very little issues with VC2003 and VC2005. I admit
that I generally don't work on complex >100KLOC codebases, so that might
have something to do with it as well.

I still use VC6 from time to time to support legacy stuff, but I really
don't miss it except for the MFC wizard, which I don't use often.
But again, that might just be because of the types of projects I work on.

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Dave Cullen - 29 Jan 2007 14:25 GMT

Thanks. I figured out what I needed to know from that.

drc

> >Creating my first Dialog MFC app using VC.NET. I'm used to VC6. Where's
> >the Class Wizzard?
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> Dave Lowndes

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