Comparing the Differences
Although the process of building the MFC application was more automated with wizards and form designers, the resulting code of the two applications shows that the MFC application is much more complex. If you take into consideration that the .NET application has no resource file to describe the Windows Form and remove the form definition from the comparison, the .NET application is significantly smaller and even easier to read.
Looking at a few of the major differences between the applications shows a fundamental distinction in the way a .NET application is developed versus how an MFC/Win32 application is developed.
The first main difference is that an MFC Windows application always starts with a CWinApp derivative. The ...
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