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What I need to learn before MFC?

I am new to C++ and MFC, I have taken a community college course in C++ where the last thing we learnt was functions, now i am taking the next class where I will be learning classes, OOP etc.

My question is...can I start learning MFC with this limited knowledge, or should i wait until I have learnt Classes and other more advanced C++ concepts before diving into MFC?

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KalluMama

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So what I gather from this is that I atleast need some basic Classes knowledge before trying MFC. Since i trying to make some changes to a small existing application, are there any other things that I should know before working with an application written using MFC? Coz right now when i look at the code it looks absolutly foreign to me...this is after having a basic C++ class....

DanRollins

MFC is all about pre-written class objects --- just classes that you would have to write yourself if somebody else hadn't already done it. So the real source of information is MSDN which provides a full diescription of each of these pre-written classes.

If you are working with somebody else's code and you see an object named, for instance CMyDlg, then go to the header file for that class and see that it is derived from CDialog. Put the cursor on the word CDialog and press the F1 Key. That's how to learn MFC :-)

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