Re: My Review of MFC Beta
"BobF" <rNfOrSePeAzMe@charter.net> ha scritto nel messaggio A couple of
months ago or so, I
started dabbling with C#/WPF GUIs. It's a night/day comparison - C#/WPF
being the day.
Yes, I also think that C#/WPF is great technology for presentation layer.
However, there are some reasons to still use MFC, like supporting and
evolving old code base (which works well, so why rewrite to C#?). Another
reason is the fact that - in general - MFC native apps tend to be faster
(and smaller) than managed ones, at least on current hardware (for example,
at startup, no need for JIT compiling is required, and no need to load the
..NET framework "monster").
And C++ is still a very important player in the game, for example, to use
multiplatform libraries (scientific libraries like Blitz++, several graphics
engines - also open-source, like Coin3D or OpenSceneGraph, etc.). And also
for some specific Windows-only stuff, like developing shell-extensions, I
think that C++ is the way to go.
BTW: I also would like to congratulate to the OP who started this thread:
his post is very interesting reading.
Giovanni