A Few Words About MFC
In 1992, Microsoft released MFC 1.0 as part of the Programmer's Workbench. MFC was a set of about 60 classes targeted mainly at wrapping the windowing and drawing parts of the 16-bit Windows API. Its goal was to wrap the implicit and inconsistent object models inherent in the operating system with an explicit, consistent C++ object model, and it did as good a job as could be expected given the state of Microsoft's C++ compiler at the time.[1]
[1] At the time, Microsoft's C++ compiler was far behind the pack in the implementation of things such as templates, exceptions, and runtime type identification (RTTI). This tardiness caused ripples in the design of MFC, and in the Windows C++ programmer community, that can still be ...
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