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How many Themes do I have to tell you: this stream of puns must stop.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Isis exactly the type of carrying ankh that will get you in trouble. I'm being quite Osiris about this.
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There ya go again, trying to turn the replies into a pyramid scheme.
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It's just a way to get stoned.
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Trying to scarab me trying to obelisk-erate & take the ankh outta me?
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I was kinda surprised to see that someone downloaded code for a MFC article I wrote in 2005 (blinking cells in Chris Maunder's grid control). Are people really still coding in C++/MVC?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 27-Nov-17 9:49am.
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MVC or MFC? The latter is still being shipped with Visual Studio, so I assume there are still some MFC coders around
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Yeah, I meant MFC. I fixed it. :/
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You should fix it also in the post itself 
Yes, I'm still using C++ and MFC. For platform independent C++ GUI applications I'm using Qt.
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Yep, doing most of our work in C++ and MFC.
I'd like to switch to C# and some fancy UI toolkit, but the cost would be too great for no real advantages (at least right now).
I'd rather be phishing!
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VB6 and Win32 API (no ATL)...
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: VB6 and Win32 API
You are not alone. I'm still maintaining a couple of VB6 applications (and around 80 or so add-on modules/utilities) that have been in use since 2K.
Migration to .NET is an ongoing project starting with the smaller add-ons and tackling the main applications last. I figure I've got a few years at least before MS stops shipping the VB6 runtimes, then probably another couple more before my customers start adopting Windows XII...that will be about the time to retire! 
btw, I was the first hire in my company in 18 years ago and I've been the only programmer here (besides a couple of college students that really didn't contribute much) for the last 16 years so practically all of the old code is mine...at least I can understand it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: VB6 and Win32 API (no ATL)...
That is Charles Petzold territory... (WIN32 API)
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I switched to Qt in 2008 (mainly because of cross platform development). Although I do wish some of the stuff I had in MFC was available in Qt. At this point I probably have written an equal amount of code in both.
John
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There was a time, I thought my career would be just about Win32 MFC, COM/ATL.
This got irrelevant, 5 years ago.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: Win32 MFC, COM/ATL.
This got irrelevant, 5 years ago.
Was COM ever relevant?
I still use MFC for writing test apps, for control panel applets, to go with my drivers, that kind of crap. It is ideal really, so easy to use, so quick to throw together UIs.
What do you use these days? Perhaps I should switch over to it.
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Quote: Was COM ever relevant?
It had it's 15 seconds of fame...
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It was a waste of time as far as I could see, it certainly didnt fix dll hell, it just created COM hell.
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COM was the only practical way to share modules between different applications, services.
We write something in VC++ and share it with application clients that are made with VB, .net & even Web/JavaScript. It was doing a real good job on intranet applications from where you can control machines/hardwares. For any non technical folks, it was almost looking like a magic. Like, A web-page controlling hardwares? COM, ActiveX were all doing those magic.
And still, COM is being used by Windows extensively. I guess WinRT does good use of COM underneath, if I'm right.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: COM was the only practical way to share modules between different applications, services.
dll's can also be shared.
COM was designed to alleviate 'dll hell', where apps became dependant on a particular version of dll because later versions lost functions, or the interface to those functions changed, or the functions themselves changed behaviour.
So instalers would often overwrite a newer dll with an older one.
Of course if dlls are properly engineere this doesnt happen, and COM becomes irrelevant. Which is what has happened.
Vunic wrote: We write something in VC++ and share it with application clients that are made with VB, .net & even Web/JavaScript
But it id still a dll written in C, even if it has a different set of functions to access it. A COM module is (unless it is an out of proc server) a dll.
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I think COM components fit naturally into the development environments of different tools. Application developers never have to worry about the importing stuff, datatypes mapping & even the physical location of the Dll. it was just piece of cake for the component consumer. obviously it was a lot of clutter for the component developer. And Active-X controls(UI+Com) were working beautifully on the web pages. it was doing real great stuff for the intranet. I know people hated it for the internet though.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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