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Was I the only one that consistently experienced a crash when exiting Visual Studio 6 without first closing the solution? I think this was running on some flavour of Windows 98 in 1999 or 2000. So I got into the habit of closing the solution first. To this day, I experience a very brief spasm of regret when I just exit Visual Studio without closing the solution first.
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My point was that MFC is not a "dumbed down" version of anything. What you are pointing out is merely a name change done by marketing from what the designers called it internally. This was explained in the documentation itself and obvious in the file names and class prefixes used in the library. Borland's OWL predated MFC (not sure by how many years) and hence held the lead before MFC came along. Once the latter beco…
> Borland's OWL predated MFC... I myself started with Borland's tools on MS-DOS, moved to Windows with straight Win16/32 SDK programming and then moved to VC++/MFC before moving away from Microsoft platforms So you totally missed / skipped Borland's VCL[1], right? That would explain your comments: It's the only way I can see how one could come to think that "Microsoft had the lead" in Windows IDEs at... Well, ever. _…
So VC++/MFC was already established by the time VCL/C++Builder came along. Also it was aimed mostly at the Delphi/Object Pascal crowd whereas most Win16/32 C SDK crowd found the transition to VC++ more natural.
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> Borland's OWL predated MFC... I myself started with Borland's tools on MS-DOS, moved to Windows with straight Win16/32 SDK programming and then moved to VC++/MFC before moving away from Microsoft platforms So you totally missed / skipped Borland's VCL[1], right? That would explain your comments: It's the only way I can see how one could come to think that "Microsoft had the lead" in Windows IDEs at... Well, ever. _…
The release dates for them should explain it (from wikipedia); MFC - 1992, VCL - 1995 and C++Builder - 1997 So VC++/MFC was already established by the time VCL/C++Builder came along. Also it was aimed mostly at the Delphi/Object Pascal crowd whereas most Win16/32 C SDK crowd found the transition to VC++ more natural.
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