Re: newbie question: Can I modify MFC source code?

I would not create a custom version of MFC to distribute, but I have, on
occasion grabbed some code from MFC and built my own function to correct
problems. For example, CFile::GetStatus() has all kinds of time bombs (pun
intended) having to do with dates on files it doesn't like. It also did not
used to handle larger file sizes (although the new version in 2008 seems to
be improved). So... I created my own GetStatus() call that had some fixes
and instead of calling CFile::GetStatus() I just call my own. I'm grateful
that the source for MFC is included because it makes debugging a lot easier,
but I think that creating your own version of the DLL will be a nightmare as
other products are installed, new versions are released, etc.

Tom

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