Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

Introduction

Regular Expressions provides a means for matching strings based on a format that includes normal alpha-numeric characters and metacharacters (characters that allow you to define complex patterns). For many years, Perl and awk programmers have enjoyed the ability to use Regular Expressions to parse and manipulate text in a powerful manner that developers in other languages could only dream of. In fact, we Visual C++ developers have always had to either painstakingly write our own string-parsing code—usually rewriting it for every project—or turn to third-party products. While MFC still doesn't implement this wonderfully robust text-processing capability, the .NET BCL does! In fact, not only does the System::Text::RegularExpressions ...