A little guidance please.....
ok, I have the Express edition of VC++ because the price tag is just right for me! I understand that there is no MFC included with this. I assume that means no ability for drop down menus or windows of any kind in any little app I might write? Strictly console programs?
Second. What then - if anything - can I do with this edition in terms of "practicing" socket programming? ie; are sockets even available here and then what for instance would a nit-wit like me "connect" to. Could I have a server VC++ program running, then start a client program that connects to it? - all from just my PC with out going over any network?
What if anything can I do with multithreading in this edition?
Anyway, hope you can make sense of those questions. thanks
Second. What then - if anything - can I do with this edition in terms of "practicing" socket programming? ie; are sockets even available here and then what for instance would a nit-wit like me "connect" to. Could I have a server VC++ program running, then start a client program that connects to it? - all from just my PC with out going over any network?
What if anything can I do with multithreading in this edition?
Anyway, hope you can make sense of those questions. thanks
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Everything is available in the Windows API. You don't need MFC to do anything in windows. Just pick new project, win32 project, compile it and run the file. It has a menu bar and an about dialog box.
Threads and sockets are all available in the API, but you have a lot of reading ahead of you.
Check out the generic sample app at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383668(VS.85).aspx
In general, you need to get familiar with MSDN.
Threads and sockets are all available in the API, but you have a lot of reading ahead of you.
Check out the generic sample app at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383668(VS.85).aspx
In general, you need to get familiar with MSDN.
1. No, MFC is... Well, I'm not sure what it is, so I'll just quote Wikipedia:
The WinAPI is written in C, so using it with C++ is sometimes awkward. That's why there's MFC.
In any case, if you want to maintain portability (it's is always a good thing, portability), it's better to use a GUI toolkit like Qt or wxWidgets.
2 and 3. You can use all aspects of the Windows API in EVC++. The Windows API is also available for other Windows compilers, such as MinGW.
| The Microsoft Foundation Class Library (also Microsoft Foundation Classes or MFC) is a library that wraps portions of the Windows API in C++ classes, including functionality that enables them to use a default application framework. Classes are defined for many of the handle-managed Windows objects and also for predefined windows and common controls. |
The WinAPI is written in C, so using it with C++ is sometimes awkward. That's why there's MFC.
In any case, if you want to maintain portability (it's is always a good thing, portability), it's better to use a GUI toolkit like Qt or wxWidgets.
2 and 3. You can use all aspects of the Windows API in EVC++. The Windows API is also available for other Windows compilers, such as MinGW.
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