Is most GUI programmed with Win32 API or mfc?

[Fierytycoon]

Is most GUI (like the ones in microsoft word)programmed with Win32 API or mfc? Please post input here, thanks.

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[Igor Soukhov]

I'm sure that most code of MS Word was done not using pure API. If MS programmers are not using MFC for theirs product - they're using some libraries for internal using...

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[Fierytycoon]

newbie question: where can I download the mfc SDK? Please post info or an URL here, thanks.

[Igor Soukhov]

I'm not sure that MFC classes are free. MFC comes with the VC++.

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[James Curran]

Word is not, in fact, using MFC. There's too much pre-MFC legacy code in it to convert it over. It may be using it's own framework.

Further, MS usually mines it's appliations for new features to be added to the operating system, which are them added to MFC. So, many of the UI controls in Word which seem at first to be standard, are implemented quite differently.

On the other hand, applications which were first created recently (such as Outlook) are in fact written using on MFC.

I suspect that virtually all new user applications, both inside & outside MS, are written using MFC or (to a much lesser extended) Borland's framework (I think they are calling it "VCL" now)

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