.NET to replace MFC????
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I don't want fancy bitmapped buttons, grids, sliding windows, etc. in MFC. Hey, that's why I used the word *relative*. MFC's own history tells us that it has extended and improved its GUI components from version to version. Sure most of them are more of a *wrapper* around their Win32 counterparts, but consider other GUI controls that are *extended* beyond this wrapping business (such as CBitmapButton, CCheckListBox etc.). Adding more controls into the library only makes it rich and thus leaving us, the end users to spend more time to make it even richer. // Fazlul
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Adding more controls into the library only makes it rich and thus leaving us, the end users to spend more time to make it even richer. The problem is that rich library becomes bloated library. Take ISAPI helper classes for example. Sure, there are users who benefit from them, but I think they are not majority. Generally speaking, the life of library writers is not an easy one - they have to hit the bullseye and provide enough functionality within reasonably-sized package. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
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Adding more controls into the library only makes it rich and thus leaving us, the end users to spend more time to make it even richer. The problem is that rich library becomes bloated library. Take ISAPI helper classes for example. Sure, there are users who benefit from them, but I think they are not majority. Generally speaking, the life of library writers is not an easy one - they have to hit the bullseye and provide enough functionality within reasonably-sized package. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
The problem is that rich library becomes bloated library. Yep, that can be an issue while redistributing the runtimes. I guess the new approach MS has taken in MFC7 by integrating it more into ATL has the potential to take a lot of load outside the runtime and make it even lighter someday. // Fazlul
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