Hot on the heels of the significant MFC updates that were delivered with the release of Visual Studio 2008, the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack significantly boosts the ability of MFC to deliver modern-looking user interfaces that will be familiar to Windows and Office users. Look at these new controls and see how MFC developers can significantly improve their application's look and feel.
Learn how to use .NET and Managed C++ to program owner-draw menu items with the fonts and point sizes you want.
One drawback to using remoting in a mixed—MFC/.NET—environment is that MFC objects cannot be remoted. Explore this technique for overcoming this limitation.
In this installment of the .NET Tips & Techniques column, learn how to serialize entire objects—as well as selected members—to and from disk using Managed C++ Extensions.
Having enterprise development problems? Discover Whitehorse, a set of modeling tools included in the next release of Visual Studio .NET (code-named Whidbey).
The COM Interop story is vital to the acceptance of .NET by today's programmers. You need access to the huge body of working tested code that is in production today, deployed as COM components. Your .NET code can call old COM code.
Become more proficient on the usage of statements to control the flow of execution through a C++/CLI application.
When creating a web project, you actually can split your configuration into separate files, each containing a part that's specific to that profile.
Avoid the pitfalls I experienced when installing VS 2015. There's also a brief history of Visual Studio.
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