They’ve come a long way from the “bad old days” of doing GUI apps with MFC under Visual C++ 6 where you had the wonderful “black box” message framework you weren’t supposed to touch but always had to anyway.\u00a0 I managed to make a GUI app today with Windows Forms to read data off a CAC card so I don’t have to keep relying on the command-line driven app I wrote for testing a while back.\u00a0 No black boxes, no hand editing message maps, no hand driving message pumps to get things done.\u00a0 And the cool thing is it might run under Mono too.<\/p>\n
While I still prefer Qt for most everything, Visual Studio now isn’t bad for the times I have to write source under Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They’ve come a long way from the “bad old days” of doing GUI apps with MFC under Visual C++ 6 where you had the wonderful “black box” message framework you weren’t supposed to touch but always had to anyway.\u00a0 I … Continue reading