MFC CRichEditView vs CRichEditCtrl

[Arjay]

SHouldn't this trick still be possible if you derived a custom class directly from CView, instead of deriving from CCtrlView? Since They are both derived from CWnd (eventually) and you're only interested in using h_Wnd.

What would be the benefit of deriving from CCtrlView?

In the link that Victor gave, Paul describes the differences in the section where he talks about the CCtrlView. Essentially CCtrlView adds a property and a couple of methods to CView. You certainly could add this to a class derived directly from CView, but what would that get you (since it's already done for you)?