Improving MFC for Windows Vista - Final Thoughts
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All of this can be realized with just a recompile or a small addition of code, with minimal effort. It won’t give you some astonishing result, but it can still make all the difference when you are using the software every day, to give you the feeling of a new, modern application.
The beauty of all this is that if you run the application on a previous OS (for example, Windows XP), of course the OS doesn't have these advanced controls, so it will downgrade gracefully to the old ones.
This alone may be a small improvement as far as motivating the purchase of a new compiler -- and with it, the text editor, because all in all Visual Studio is this and nothing more: an advanced text editor with a compiler in it. But this is just a small fragment of the new features it brings to the world of MFC.
Of course if you have a more complex application with a lot of controls that have been heavily modified, the conversion to the new version might prove a little more troublesome, as they may conflict with some new features. But the new MFC improvement brings many helpful additions.
Some of them were already implemented by many user-made classes that you can find at the CodeProject or CodeGuru websites. The only problem is that not all creators of these classes can invest the time in correcting bugs, while the ones in the new MFC pack have been written by MS and are heavily bug tracked. So why not take advantage of them?
I will talk about additions that require a little more work than just a recompile or a line added/changed in a future article, so stick around if you want to find out more. Also I invite you to express your thoughts/ideas here on the blog or join our friendly forum over the DevHardware. Have a great day until then…
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