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Visual C++ docs: the future is… soon!

November 8, 2016 Nov 8, 2016 11/8/16

EricMittelette

We on the Visual C++ documentation team are pleased to announce some changes to the API reference content in the following Visual C++ libraries: STL, MFC, ATL, AMP, and ConcRT. Since the beginning of MSDN online, the Visual C++ libraries have documented each class member, free function, macro, enum, and property on a separate web page. While ...

MFC Dynamic Dialog Layout

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

Artur Laksberg

One of the frequently requested MFC features (and by the way, thanks for the feedback and keep it coming!) is the ability to intelligently resize dialogs and their content at runtime. One approach is to intercept WM_SIZE message of the parent dialog and recalculate the size and position of the child controls accordingly. It works, but is ...

ATL and MFC changes and fixes in Visual Studio 2013

August 20, 2013 Aug 20, 2013 08/20/13

Pat Brenner MSFT

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I would like to share with you the changes that we’ve made in ATL and MFC for Visual Studio 2013.One of the major changes we made was to eliminate the ATL DLL altogether. All ATL code is now static, either in the header files or...

MFC support for MBCS deprecated in Visual Studio 2013

July 8, 2013 Jul 8, 2013 07/8/13

Pat Brenner MSFT

April 2017 update Regarding our work on migration to VC2015 last year, we decided to remove the warning about MBCS deprecation.We hear you and understand that too many "old and large" MFC projects depend on it and it is too costly for large projects to move to Unicode. For new or small existing projects we definitely recommend using Unicode, ...

What bugs were fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2012?

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12

Visual CPP Team

What’s up with MFC in Visual Studio 2011 Beta

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Visual CPP Team

(image) Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. Through this blog post I wanted to share some information about the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library, since I am the primary developer working on MFC. As you know, MFC is an important technology component which has been extensively used over the years by...

Reducing the Size of Statically-linked MFC Applications in VC11

February 6, 2012 Feb 6, 2012 02/6/12

Visual CPP Team

(image) Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I am the primary developer working on the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). In Visual Studio 2010, the size of statically-linked MFC applications grew substantially. We’ve gotten a number of comments about this issue, so I wanted to post an article ...

Update on Bulletin MS11-025

June 17, 2011 Jun 17, 2011 06/17/11

Visual CPP Team

A while back Microsoft had released security bulletin MS11-025 that addressed a publicly disclosed vulnerability in certain applications built using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate file associated with such an affected application, and the file ...