Re: Unicode setting question

Dave, when you say "WinForms" are you meaning WinForms with C#? You have
mentioned it several times in combination with MFC and I thought you meant
the MFC version of WinForms vs. the typical MFC resources and I couldn't
figure out why you thought anyone used that :o)

If you mean C#/WinForms/WPF is catching on I can't argue with that. I do
about 75% C# programming these days and 25% MFC. I could go either way,
but my company really seems to be disliking MFC more and more regardless
of how much I fight for it. It's mostly a matter of tools. The IDE tools
work so much better with C# than with C++ that every naturally thinks C#
is easier. The syntax is easier, but VB was easier than C++ 10 years ago
and we still used C++ because of the performance. I don't know how many
C# applications will eventually start to clunk when large data sets and
memory requirements are thrown at them, but my C++ program has trouble
sometimes even handling things like lists of 500K files. I can't imagine
what C# would do with a 500K element string array. I can't imagine how it
could do better than C++.

For quick little "display the forms and hook to my database" applications
C# is way better imo. The tools you get with .NET are great and the
interface looks fine and the programmers don't mind using it because it
doesn't seem as much like a toy as VB did.