{"id":28413,"date":"2007-01-15T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/01\/15\/does-microsoft-internally-use-mfc-for-writing-windows-apps\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T10:00:02","slug":"does-microsoft-internally-use-mfc-for-writing-windows-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070115-02\/?p=28413","title":{"rendered":"Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Ward figures that if he asks enough questions I might answer one of them. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/pages\/407234.aspx#408420\">Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps? How about VB?<\/a>&#8221;\n People use whatever they decide best meets the requirements for the task at hand. That could be a batch file, a C++ program, a perl script, a web page with a bunch of JScript, use your imagination. Is the number of solutions that use MFC and VB nonzero? I don&#8217;t know for sure (I&#8217;m not in the habit of taking all the programs I see and trying to figure out what language they&#8217;re written in), but I&#8217;d be very surprised if somebody somewhere hasn&#8217;t thrown together an MFC or VB program to do <i>something<\/i>, be it a test suite, an install script, a graphical interface over a complicated command-line tool, or something else. It&#8217;s a big company. I understand that in some parts of the company <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/macmojo\/\"> they even use Macintoshes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m not going to go into details of specific projects because (3)&nbsp;I am not authorized to talk about it. (I gave <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/11\/25\/496955.aspx#497180\"> reasons one and two<\/a> two years ago.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Ward figures that if he asks enough questions I might answer one of them. &#8220;Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps? How about VB?&#8221; People use whatever they decide best meets the requirements for the task at hand. That could be a batch file, a C++ program, a perl script, a web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-28413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Craig Ward figures that if he asks enough questions I might answer one of them. &#8220;Does Microsoft internally use MFC for writing Windows apps? How about VB?&#8221; People use whatever they decide best meets the requirements for the task at hand. That could be a batch file, a C++ program, a perl script, a web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}