Victor A. Wagner Jr.: >>How do you measure failure? Certainly MFC is primitive, but tens of >>thousands of developers use it every day. There are better >>alternatives - Microsoft tells me they have been shipping an >>"unsupported" library which is "what MFC would have been if we'd >>started with templates". > >did they give you the name of this library?
Presumably this is WTL - the Windows Template Library. <url:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=128e26ee-2112-4cf7-b28e-7727d9a1f288&displaylang=en> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview Windows Template Library (WTL) is a library for developing Windows® applications and UI components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more. This version provides full support for Visual Studio .NET and Windows XP. Note: The Windows Template Library (WTL) is not supported by Microsoft Product Support Services. However, you may find some peer support at the WTL Support List Web site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite the unsupported nature, it's currently at version 7.0 When they mention templates, they certainly went far beyond MFC - ATL not only uses multiple inheritance, it even use the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern. Having said which, any further discussion is probably off topic, unless we're trying to learn lessons from its design to apply to Boost candidates. Alan -- Alan Bellingham _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
