Re: App local deployment with VC 2010
"David Webber" <dave@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote in message
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It will take a while, but I haven't created a new solution in ages, and I
have now discovered I can have tabbed MDI, and tool bars to which the user
can add buttons. And selectable themes. Not to mention a navigation
pane. So users will get a radically new looking program out of all this
work I'm doing - even if it doesn't yet include any new real
functionality. I'll try to stop knocking the Windows fashion industry :-)
:-)
Ha ha, you might even start liking the fashion in this century. ;)
Seriously, someone needs to step back and make it easier to upgrade these
years old projects to the latest defaults. IOW, the IDE project conversion
wizard needs to have a checkbox
[ ] Update UI controls to latest version
[ ] Use new themes
[ ] Replace toolbars with ribbon
[ ] Derive dialogs from CDialogEx
...
The only alternative is what you're doing - using the AppWizard to get a new
shell and copy/pasting stuff from the old project into the new one. And
finding each little "improvement" and doing search/replace on it (like
converting CDialog to CDialogEx).
Anyway, even if it is tedious, it is one way of upgrading your users fairly
easily. Good luck with it!
-- David