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  • J Julian Goldsmith

    VC++ 2005 Express can't find any of the Windows headers, and MFC/ATL support does't work. Microsoft didn't even acknowledge that I had emailed them. Can anyone help me? __________________________________________ Let's push Satan

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    Nish Nishant
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    The Win 2003 Platform SDK contains source code for ATL and MFC (not sure if they are the latest versions though). No libs or DLLs are provided, but I believe there are makefiles that you can use to generate your MFC libs/dlls. It may not be very straightforward, but it's doable, and considering that the PSDK is free, it's a decent option really. Regards, Nish

    My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

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    • J Judah Gabriel Himango

      Is it any secret Microsoft wants developers to build .NET applications? Of course they're pushing their new stuff, what company doesn't?

      Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Connor's Christmas Spectacular! Judah Himango

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      Jerry Hammond
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      Judah Himango wrote:

      Is it any secret Microsoft wants developers to build .NET applications? Of course they're pushing their new stuff, what company doesn't?

      IBM? Which explains why the elephant no longer dances. My Programming Library

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        The Win 2003 Platform SDK contains source code for ATL and MFC (not sure if they are the latest versions though). No libs or DLLs are provided, but I believe there are makefiles that you can use to generate your MFC libs/dlls. It may not be very straightforward, but it's doable, and considering that the PSDK is free, it's a decent option really. Regards, Nish

        My blog : Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET

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        Jim Crafton
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        Wow that's pretty weird - so it would be conceivable to "fix" various MFC bugs/features? Could you redistribute the lib? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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        • J Jim Crafton

          Wow that's pretty weird - so it would be conceivable to "fix" various MFC bugs/features? Could you redistribute the lib? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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          Tom Archer
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          MFC source code has always been shipped with MFC. Additionally, there's a technote detailing how to modify and build the MFC libraries so that's always been an option as well. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT -- modified at 21:07 Monday 13th February, 2006

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          • T Tom Archer

            Some of these questions/comments today make me feel like I should be donning a "Captain Obvious" cape :) Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT

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            Jim Crafton
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            I think there's another issue at play here as well. Because of OSS, specifically the GNU crowd, obsessive insistence that *all" software should be practically free in price (yes I know they allow you to charge for it, but in practical terms that is NOT what happens), means that many people, and perhaps many newcomers, expectations are set with this in mind. Personally I think it's a stupid attitude. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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            • T Tom Archer

              MFC source code has always been shipped with MFC. Additionally, there's a technote detailing how to modify and build the MFC libraries so that's always been an option as well. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT -- modified at 21:07 Monday 13th February, 2006

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              Jim Crafton
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              Yeah, I knew about the source, but I didn't think you could build binaries from it. Interesting to know. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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              • J Jim Crafton

                Yeah, I knew about the source, but I didn't think you could build binaries from it. Interesting to know. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                Tom Archer
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                It's actually quite easy to do. Well, at least what I remember from it but that was back in 1995 when I made some changes and rebuilt the libs just to see if it could really be done :) Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT

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                • T Tom Archer

                  It's actually quite easy to do. Well, at least what I remember from it but that was back in 1995 when I made some changes and rebuilt the libs just to see if it could really be done :) Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT

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                  Jim Crafton
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                  I'm surprised no one has proposed to MS to make some sort of MFC++ project, with improvements coming in from the outside, or at least at a faster pace than waiting around for new VC releases. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                  • T Tom Archer

                    How does anyone learn a product that is sold? They download the trial version of the full-featured product. Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT

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                    Roger Wright
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                    Right... Where can I get that 9-year free trial?;) "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                    • T Tom Archer

                      Some of these questions/comments today make me feel like I should be donning a "Captain Obvious" cape :) Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT

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                      Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                      Tom Archer - MSFT wrote:

                      Some of these questions/comments today make me feel like I should be donning a "Captain Obvious" cape

                      I'd love to see the pictures! :laugh: Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

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                        And I think MS is dropping support for MFC so I don't know if you want to invest too much time learning it...

                        That I have a hard time to believe. At least for the near future. There's a lot of MFC code out there, and I think people would go postal on Microsoft if they just trashed it.

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                        Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                        Definitely. Remember that they've already announced that the Visual Studio Orcas version of MFC will support features specific to Vista... Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                        • T Tom Archer

                          Who did you email? MFC/ATL is not supported on Express. Express is specifically a free compiler for people wanting to learn C++. If you need/want MFC/ATL, you need to purchase the full product. Regarding header files, it sounds like you need the following page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx[^] Tom Archer (blog) Program Manager MSDN Online (Windows Vista and Visual C++) MICROSOFT

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                          Bassam Abdul Baki
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                          Hi Tom, I just finished installing the Platform SDK (it didn't work yesterday on my XP Home laptop for some reason) and I thought you might be able to answer this question. The Platform SDK requires certain paths to be added to the Options dialog. By default, it puts it in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\. We can manually change that to $(ProgramFiles)\Microsoft Platform SDK. Do you know of any way of creating $(NewKeyword) variables so that we could use them? Also, if possible, could you ask Microsoft (you're as close as I can get to them :-)) to add the option for the dialog to scan the path and convert the largest folder path to a $(SpecialKeyword) automatically whenever you close the browse dialog. I think that would be a very nifty feature. Thanks. "If only one person knows the truth, it is still the truth." - Mahatma Gandhi Web - Blog - RSS - Math

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