Hi Ted,

We have done in depth review of all new Vista APIs and discussed possible wrappers. We were looking on adding classes to ATL that can be used in MFC , similar to CStringT. We grouped them into categories, such as new security related APIs (URL APIs, Crypto, File System and Critical section APIs, thread pool); new APIs related to Vista UI (Common ctrls changes, shell extensions, property sheets, winuser and clipboard APIs); new Fusion (WinSxS) APIs and other. During the planning we have looked on all of them and prioritized based on time and resource available and what we saw as interesting to MFC developers. As you may already know, we have decided to focus on enabling MFC developers use all new styles, messages and common controls that are available on Vista. We also are planning to enable developers use new File dialogs API. We have decided to not provide wrappers for shell APIs, wizards, windows service APIs, perf mon and HTTP/URL specific APIs. Some of these can already be easily used in existing code based. As we hear demand for a specific group of APIs, we are going to add wrappers to these in MFC in the next versions.

Thanks,
Nikola Dudar
Program Manager
Visual C++