Visual C++® 6 Unleashed

Chapter 2. MFC Class Library Overview

by David Bennett and Mickey Williams

In This Chapter

• The Application Framework

• Creating an MFC Application with MFC AppWizard

• The CWinApp Class

• The CWinThread Class

• The CCmdTarget Class

• The CObject Class

• Runtime Type Information

• Debugging Support

• Putting It All Together

• The Message Pump

In Chapter 1, "The Visual C++ 6.0 Environment," you looked at Developer Studio and the tools that it provides to help you develop C++ applications for Windows. Now you will get down to business and look at real application development. To help you with this, the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) class library provides an application framework, in addition to the general classes and Win32 API wrapper classes that you expect from a Windows ...