Re: MFC updates and enhancements
I suspect it may be something like that. Every demo I've seen has focused
on the ribbon control and some menu coloring stuff. Maybe that's all there
is and to get the really good stuff you have to buy the whole package from
BCGSoft. Otherwise, why announce it was from them at all? If it were
localized to a few controls Microsoft could have surely gone through some
arduous Q&A and fixed some problems in 6 months. I could write my own
ribbon control in 6 months.
Tom
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I'm just thinking logically here. If BCGSoft never took the time to fix
the product themselves, you think Microsoft is going to fix or rewrite it
in 6 months? Doubtful. Yeah, they have a lot of resources, but I'd be
surprised if we get more then a search and replace on the class names to
get rid of the BCG name. It *does* sound like a BCGSoft lite though. It
sounds from the blog/press release that they didn't include some of the
classes like the grid, etc.
Microsoft has included lots of "light" versions with VS and told you to go
buy the full one.
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