MFC Desktop Applications

MFC Application Wizard

2025-11-02

Written by: xiaobin

• Creating an MFC Application
  name: SerialComm

IDE

• VS2013
  VS 2010 is slower than ever, 2012 is less slow, 2013 is even less slow. I would go with the last one just to have more recent C++ features and excellent debugging experience. You might want to read about the issues and good sides of recent VS versions in this blog article from dark_sylink who is the main contributor for Ogre 2.0 : https://www.yosoygames.com.ar/wp/2013/12/microsoft-we-need-to-talk-about-visual-studio

• MFC MBCS DLL Add-on
  Support for MFC and its multibyte character set (MBCS) libraries requires an additional step during Visual Studio installation in Visual Studio 2013 and later.

Download the DLL at Multibyte MFC Library for Visual Studio 2013.

MFC Application Wizard

• Application Type
• User Interface Features

default

• Advanced Features

Cancel All

• View

Application Type - Single Document

• Project style:

MFC standard

• Visual style and colors:

Windows Native/Default

View

In step 5 of the AppWizard, select Generated Classes and select CFormView as the base class using the Base class combo box.

Breaking changes

• noexcept
• Microsoft C/C++ language conformance by Visual Studio version
• Microsoft C/C++ change history 2003 - 2015

noexcept - C++11

In VC++ (VS2005~VS2010) that does not support the C++11 standard:

CMainFrame() noexcept;