MFC Topics (General)

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This family of articles includes technical details about the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and provides an overview of the MFC framework and its key components and subsystems. MFC and the Active Template Library (ATL) are part of Microsoft Foundation Classes and Templates.

Technical details include:

• How to use the MFC source files, which are supplied with Visual C++
  
  
• How to use MFC.BSC, the MFC browse information file
  
  
• MFC library versions
  
  
• Managing the state data of MFC modules
  
  
• Idle loop processing in MFC

What do you want to know more about?

• Using MFC to write Windows programs
  
  
• Building on the MFC framework
  
  
• How the framework calls my code
  
  
• CWinApp: the application class
  
  
• Document templates and the document/view creation process
  
  
• Creating windows of my own with class CWnd
  
  
• Working with window objects
  
  
• Working with Windows device contexts
  
  
• Working with Windows graphic objects: pens, brushes, fonts, bitmaps, palettes, and regions

For information about many other aspects of MFC, see MFC: Overview. For an overview of the MFC reference documentation, see Microsoft Foundation Class Library.

For information about ATL, see Active Template Library Reference.