MFC Fundamentals

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MFC's strong suit is its fundamental support for programming for Microsoft Windows. The following programming areas are of common interest:

Frame windows

Documents

Views of documents

Multiple views

Special view types, such as scroll views and form views

Dialog boxes and property sheets

Windows Common Controls

Mapping Windows messages to handler functions

Toolbars and other control bars

Printing and print preview

Serialization of data to and from files and other media

Device contexts and GDI drawing objects

Exception handling

Collections of data objects

Diagnostics

Strings, rectangles, and points

Date and time

And considerably more.

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