MFC

ActiveX Controls with MFC

How MFC's COleControl base class and the MFC ActiveX Control Wizard produce reusable OCX controls with properties, methods, events, and property pages, and how…

Creating Windows with MFC

How MFC's CWnd/CFrameWnd hierarchy and CWinApp::InitInstance replace manual Win32 window registration and message-loop code.

Debugging MFC Applications

Practical techniques for diagnosing MFC bugs using TRACE, ASSERT_VALID, the debug heap, and Spy++ message inspection.

Double Buffering in MFC

Why complex or frequently updated views flicker under naive GDI drawing, and how to eliminate that flicker using an off-screen memory device context in MFC.

File I/O with MFC

Reading and writing files in MFC using CFile, CStdioFile, and CArchive, plus handling file exceptions correctly.

GDI Basics in MFC

An introduction to the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and how MFC's CDC class family wraps device contexts, handles, and GDI objects for safe, structu…

MFC and COM Integration

How MFC exposes COM support through CCmdTarget, interface maps, and dispatch maps, letting an MFC application act as an automation server or client without han…

MFC and GDI+

How to integrate GDI+ into an MFC application for anti-aliased vector graphics, alpha-blended bitmaps, and richer image format support alongside classic GDI.

MFC Application Architecture

How an MFC application is structured around CWinApp, message maps, and frame windows, and how these pieces cooperate to start up, route input, and shut down cl…

MFC Collection Classes

A tour of MFC's template and legacy collection classes for storing arrays, lists, and maps of data, and how to choose between them.

MFC Common Pitfalls

The recurring mistakes MFC developers make with message maps, GDI resources, and the Document/View architecture, and how to avoid them.

MFC Controls Overview

A tour of MFC's C++ wrapper classes for Windows common controls, how to bind them via DDX_Control, and practical examples with CListCtrl and CComboBox.

MFC Database Access

MFC's two parallel database frameworks - ODBC-based CDatabase/CRecordset and DAO-based CDaoDatabase/CDaoRecordset - and how record field exchange (RFX/DFX) bin…

MFC Exception Handling

How MFC's CException hierarchy works, how to catch and clean up MFC exceptions correctly, and how they interact with standard C++ exceptions.

MFC Feature Pack and Ribbon UI

The Visual Studio 2008 Feature Pack classes (CMFCRibbonBar, CDockablePane, CFrameWndEx) that brought Office-style ribbons, docking panes, and visual managers t…

MFC Interview Questions

Common conceptual and debugging-style MFC interview questions, with the reasoning strong candidates use to answer them.

MFC Project Structure

A tour of the files a Visual Studio MFC project generates - source, resource, and precompiled-header files - and how the build configuration ties them together.

MFC Quick Reference

A condensed lookup of MFC's core class hierarchy, message map macros, and common string/collection/resource idioms.

MFC vs Win32 API

A comparison of programming directly against the raw Win32 API versus using MFC's object-oriented abstraction layer, covering trade-offs in productivity, contr…

Migrating MFC to Modern Frameworks

Strategies for moving mature MFC applications toward WinUI 3, WPF, or Qt using strangler-fig migration and safe business-logic extraction.

Multithreading in MFC

How MFC wraps Win32 threading into CWinThread, worker vs. UI threads, and the synchronization classes (CCriticalSection, CMutex, CEvent, CSemaphore) used to co…

Serialization in MFC

How MFC's CObject::Serialize framework, CArchive, and the DECLARE_SERIAL/IMPLEMENT_SERIAL macros work together to persist objects to and from disk.

What Is MFC?

An introduction to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the C++ framework that wraps the Win32 API into an object-oriented class library for building native…