I see what you're getting at. You're right. Class Wizard that we had in VC++6 is gone in VC7. Personally, though I got used to with CW in VC6, I guess I am also getting used to with the new property sheet model. About a year ago, Walter Sullivan (Lead program manager, MFC / ATL) had this comment on this change.. The Wizard/Resource Editor combination of tools is quite similar to V6. The Class Wizard has been ripped apart into various locations around the IDE. Some people like it, some people hate it. Personally, I feel it would be nice if MS kept the classic class wizard in addition to the new VB-like property sheet. // Fazlul

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Works just fine for me. // Fazlul

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Stan Shannon wrote: How do you do that? Does it give you the old Class Wizard back? Sorry for the late reply ( I was in a meeting). To set the VC++ style classic interface (or any other kind), simply go to the "Start page" of VS .NET and then select "My Profile" from the list on the left of the page. Then from the "Profile" combobox, select "Visual C++ Developer" option. Hope this helps. // Fazlul

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Chris Losinger wrote: Personally, I hate the VC7 GUI. it's too much like VB for me. You can always choose the classic C++ style GUI (instead of VB - style GUI) // Fazlul

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Nick Parker wrote: What degree(s) do you have In my other life, I had a Ph.D. in Electrical Engg. (Univ. of Manchester, UK) Nick Parker wrote: I have found that a lot have technical backgrounds but not always directly related to information technology Couldn't agree more.. I'm probably having more fun with my new life than the previous one. // Fazlul

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Though I understand why MS had to adopt GC (and drop deterministic finalization) for inter-language interoperability, I will equally miss a lot the plain C++ style deterministic finalization through creating class instances on the stack (such as CMyDialog dlg; instead of CMyDialog* pDlg = new CMyDialog(); ). It’s just so handy. With .NET, the only way I can use a class object is by creating that using 'new' operator. // Fazlul

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Yet another cancellation from Microsoft.. (ignore if it's already been reported) Microsoft All Talked Out, Cancels PDC This Fall // Fazlul

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Man, I'm scheduled to deliver an hour long presentation this afternoon on the glories of .NET to a bunch of Java worshipers here in VA. Looks like I need to *repackage* my PowerPoint slides too. // Fazlul

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HJB417 wrote: how do you tell the compiler NOT to compile to native code In project properties (settings) dialog, set "Configuration properties - General - Use Manged Extensions" to Yes. // Fazlul

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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: But think of the poor VB 6 programmers. VB.NET is so totally different for them from VB 6 and yet they suffer in silence. We don;t hear any complaints or any fuss made. The infamous VB6 rants // Fazlul

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Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: From a different perspective, I believe that this can even be achieved by "one cool product" which is developed based on dot net, something like "winzip" Huh? unless MS bribes WinZip maker heavily, why would they rewrite it on .NET? This will only put millions of WinZip users in a very awkward position by forcing them to download some 21 MB redistributable (instead of current < 1.4 MB). // Fazlul

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Simon Walton wrote: Heh, that's what I was thinking. How big are the required runtime files (in full) anyway, does anyone know the exact size? 21,827,584 Bytes, to be exact // Fazlul

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Magnus H wrote: Maybe then MS can get their heads straight and have one person working on .NET and the .NET staff working on WTL .. and funny part is that one person (Nenad.NET) won't be even working full time. // Fazlul

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Let's make a few more zillion posts on CP, and see it gets the MS official status in next VC++ release. // Fazlul

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We should all be sorry instead for all the damn *wrong* answers we gave. Hope you took those easy. Happy CPing. // Fazlul

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Sounds like a CLR - like language, went out of managed state. // Fazlul

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Check this link. // Fazlul

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Todd C. Wilson wrote: Sounds like a prime money-making opportunity to me. You can contract yourself out as the True Direct Show Guru. Write books. Do the lecture circuit. Star in a show opposite Oprha. The mind boggles... ..just the way how COM gurus made (and are still making) tons of cash. // Fazlul

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Russell Morris wrote: The type of difference I remember: when you created a TPen in OWL, it actually created the underlying PEN object, while with MFC you had to create the CPen object, and then call it's Create() method. Encapsulation my butt MFC's CPen supports that kind of encapsulation too.

CPen pen(PS_SOLID, 3, RGB(255, 0, 0));

// Fazlul

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Try SEH exception to hook GPFs. There are a few [articles](http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/index.asp#Exception Handling) on CP about this. Also search MSDN with SEH Exception to find more. // Fazlul

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