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Creating a Simple Windows Form

Using Visual C++'s Application Wizard to create a simple dialog-based application using MFC is a relatively easy task. Just by setting a few configuration options, the wizard creates a dialog template and associated source code for the class that uses that template. An instance of the class is then used as the main window for the application.

Creating the same simple application with Visual C++ .NET in managed code—and thus using Windows Forms—is not as simple. Because there are no resource files to define templates for dialogs and there is no integrated form designer that can be used with Visual C++ .NET, you must create Windows Forms using source code instead. However, both Visual Basic .NET and C# do have a form ...