13. MFC Tips, Tricks, and Caveats

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13. MFC Tips, Tricks, and Caveats

13.1. Macro Questions: 13.1.1. What's the difference between IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC, IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE, and IMPLEMENT_SERIAL?; 13.1.2. How can I declare an abstract base class to be IMPLEMENT_SERIAL?; 13.1.3. I can't create an instance because of DECLARE_DYNCREATE!; 13.1.4. How do I enable TRACE macros in my app?

NEW!! 13.1.5. Alternative to the TRACE macro

13.2. Application Specific Questions

13.2.1. How can I create an application that is initially maximized?

13.2.2. How do I limit my MFC application to one instance?

13.2.3. How do I get my MFC app to use the Registry on Win32 platforms?

13.2.4. How do I programmatically terminate my MFC application?

13.3. Thread Related Questions

13.3.1. How do I perform background processing in my application?

13.3.2. How do I send a message to another thread?

13.4. MFC on other Platforms

13.4.1. Is MFC available on the Macintosh?

13.4.2. Is MFC available on OS/2?

13.5. Miscellaneous

13.5.1. Is MFC DEAD?

13.5.2. Does ATL replace MFC?

13.5.3. Will the next version of MFC support [some particular feature]?

13.5.4. Does Microsoft use MFC in their Products? Which ones?

13.5.5. How should I learn / start-learning MFC?

13.5.6. What's the best way to convert my C Window's app to MFC?

13.5.7. Why is my MFC application running slow?

13.5.8. What is AFX.INL and AFXWIN1.INL, etc..?

13.5.9. What the heck is this _t() thing I keep seeing?

13.5.10. How do I use CMemoryState?

13.5.11. How do I customize the MFC idle time processing?

13.5.12. How do I display a "Choose directory" dialog, instead of a "Choose file" dialog?

13.5.13. I'm having problems using MFC 4.0 and the STL, what could be wrong?

NEW!! 13.5.14. What is MFC's Y2K compliance for CTimeSpan, COleDateTimeSpan, CTime, and COleDateTime?

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