Microsoft Visual Studio: Building Applications With MFC

1. PC26 Microsoft Visual Studio: Building Applications With MFC  Damien Watkins Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda • Agenda • Visual C++ Strategy • MFC Specifically • Major MFC additions in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 • Upcoming MFC additions • Summary • Objectives • Understand Visual C++ strategy and direction • Recognize our commitmentto enhance MFC(and other native) libraries

3. Visual C++ Strategy • Enable developer success on Microsoft platforms by providing world-classnative tools • Our customers care about: • Investment • Scalability • Compliance • Interoperability

4. Halloween Myth MFC

5. MFC Developers Want • Applications to look and feel like Windows/Office applications • Goal is to provide a smooth and easypath to platform technologies • The ability to customize functionality is vital

6. MFC First Step: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 • Modernized MFC • Ribbon Bar (Office 2007 Look & Feel and Visual Studio) • Visual Manager • Improved floating and docking panes • New Controls • TR1 (“Technical Report 1”) • shared_pointer • Regular expression parsing • New Containers (tuple, array,unordered set, etc.)

7. demo Visual Studio 2008 SP1MFC Office 2007Look & Feel

8. As Easy As …

9. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 MFCThe new picture G Application Architecture GUI Support General Purpose NEW! Exceptions CWinApp Frames Visual Manager Tabbed MDI Control Bars File Services Office Ribbon Doc/View Dialogs ToolBar, Menu Database Support Docking Panes Views Common Dlgs OLE Support Window Controls Common Controls Containers New Controls GDI Support More…

10. Ribbon • Designed to be easily customizableand extendable CMFCRibbonApplicationButton CMFCRibbonQuickAccessToolBar CMFCRibbonCategory CMFCRibbonBar CMFCRibbonPanel CMFCRibbonColorButton CMFCRibbonButton

11. MFC Second Step: Visual Studio 2010 • Application Recovery and Restart Manager • Task Dialog • Live Icons & Rich Preview • Taskbar • Windows ScenicRibbon • D2D • DPI Awareness

12. Application RecoveryAnd Restart Manager • Update your MFC applications seamlessly • Automatic backup and recovery of user documents • Provide error recovery mechanism for unexpected crashes

13. demo Visual Studio 2010Restart Manager

14. Live Icon And Rich Preview • Live Icons show an icon based onthe contents of a file • Rich Preview provides a richeruser experience

15. Live Icons And Rich Preview

16. Windows 7 Taskbar • Jump Lists • Recent Category (get by default) • APIs for • Frequent Category • Custom Categories and User Tasks • Thumbnail previews for tabbed documents • Overlay Icons • Progress Bar

17. demo Visual Studio 2010Taskbar

18. The Ribbon LandscapeSoftware vendors have diverse needs • Goal: Enable a range of apps to use Ribbons • Future Plans: • Markup for MFC Ribbon • Designer tools WPF MFC Scenic Target: Managed Target: MFC Native Target: Native Needs .NET 3.5 Win2k or newer Vista or newer Office 2007 and Windows Style Office 2007 and Windows Style¹ WindowsVisual Style Coming Soon.. Official Release in 2009 Available now in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Coming Soon… Ships with Windows 7 Microsoft’s Ribbon Strategy 1 Office 2007 style available now,  Windows style available 2009

19. demo Visual Studio 2010Ribbon Support

20. D2D • 2D vector graphics, bitmaps and text • Hardware accelerated on graphics card • Software fallback (CPU) – but still faster than GDI • Interoperates with GDI, D3D • Built on Direct3D 10.1

21. demo Visual Studio 2010D2D

22. DPI Awareness • Matching the hardware and OS resolutions provides the highest fidelity experience • However as the resolution increases screen elements become smaller • The solution is to make your applications DPI aware

23. DPI Awareness

24. Summary • Visual C++: Enabling developer success on Microsoft Platforms is our goal • MFC: Providing quick access to new platform functionality via the MFC Framework is a cornerstone of our plan

25. PDC Related Talks: Concurrency • Visual C++ • Microsoft Visual C++: 10 Is the New 6 • Parallel runtime and libraries • Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing Resources • Parallel Symposium: Addressing the Hard Problems with Concurrency • Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio

26. PDC Related Talks: Windows 7 • Windows 7 • Windows 7: Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop • Windows 7: Developing Multi-touch Applications • Windows 7: New APIs to Find, Visualize, and Organize • Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D • Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code • Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop • Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware

27. Resources • VC Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog • C++ Channel9 Videos: http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/C++/ • VC++ MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/default.aspx • VC++ MSDN Forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/visualc/

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