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Trying to develop a CAD program
Hi,
Using Deelip's book "A Step by Step Guide to Developing a Professional CAD Application" I am struggling now to get started. Being not a real programmer and thus trying to prevent high software overload on my laptop, first I tried Sharp Develop 3, the open source alternative for Microsoft Visual Studio. Then I heard that DRX programming is restricted to C++ only, where Sharp Develop uses C# (# = sharp). So now I ended up downloading the 750 Mb of Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express. However when I tried to create the project using MFC Application as the template, the MFC is not in my list of project types.
Please help me!
Using Deelip's book "A Step by Step Guide to Developing a Professional CAD Application" I am struggling now to get started. Being not a real programmer and thus trying to prevent high software overload on my laptop, first I tried Sharp Develop 3, the open source alternative for Microsoft Visual Studio. Then I heard that DRX programming is restricted to C++ only, where Sharp Develop uses C# (# = sharp). So now I ended up downloading the 750 Mb of Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express. However when I tried to create the project using MFC Application as the template, the MFC is not in my list of project types.
Please help me!
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Unfortunately the express versions do not come with MFC libraries. MFC libraries are only available with the standard (or better) versions of Visual studio. FYI, you don’t need MFC if you’re not making dialogs, just use a win32 project
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My book relies heavily on the MFC Doc-View architecture. That's because I did not want to complicate things by having to write my own GUI code. The focus of the book is how to use the ODA libraries and that is why I went with MFC's Doc View.
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Deelip Menezes said:My book relies heavily on the MFC ....
Ah! This is a common mistake among C++ fledglings, perhaps something worth noting in such a publication
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