Starting with a MFC project

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I would like to start with a MFC based project. It should be able to load one Form after the other from the menu list. One form should be viewed by the time and overwritten by choosing another one.

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Started with Visual Studio SDI MFC project.

Posted 29-Oct-23 8:48am

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Updated 30-Oct-23 11:59am

Deeksha Shenoy

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merano99 29-Oct-23 19:42pm

What exactly is the question?

Richard MacCutchan 30-Oct-23 5:06am

You would be better moving to .NET and C# which is designed around the use of forms, and much easier than MFC.

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Yvan Rodrigues · Answer 1 · 2023-10-29T11:08:00

MFC was released with Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 over 30 years ago. As such, there is an abundance of books, online documentation, and tutorials out there, including on this website. As you note, MFC supports three "kinds" of Windows applications: modal, SDI, and MDI. An example of a modal SDI application is Windows Notepad, included in every version of Windows.

Some resources you might look at to start with MFC are:

Maxim Kartavenkov · Answer 2 · 2023-10-30T07:42:00

If you just starting with MFC then use the dialog based application it allows you SDI it's more complex template for the working with the your files formats and documents - it prepare automatically functionality for that. In dialog based applications you can setting up controls on your form add menu and toolbar simple handle buttons pressing and so on. In SDI you control content of your form manually and mostly dynamically, which is not good for starting with MFC.

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