Create a single-document project using the MFC App Wizard in VC++ 5.0/6.0

Using VC 5.0/6.0

2025-11-18

Written by: xiaobin

• Visual C++ 5.0/6.0
• Windows 2003 R2
• VirtualBox / VMware workstation

The Architecture

Supporting the coordination of application data and data renderings is a perfect job for a framework. And when Microsoft released MFC 2.0 in early 1993, it included a document/view architecture within MFC. MFC’s document/view architecture deals with the data management and User-Interface issues just described.

As an aside, MFC’s document/view is not a new idea. It was first created by the folks at Xerox PARC (by the same company that invented graphical user interface) and was a key part of ther Smalltalk environment. Smalltalk’s version of document/view is called model-view-controller(MVC)(where model=document). The Smalltalk MVC architecture has a controller(kind of like CDocTemplate in MFC) that acts like a shield between the document and the view so that they do not get too dependent on each other.

class diagram

Image source: Beginning Visual C++ 2013

project

name: SdiSquares
vc56: Images compatible with both VC 5.0 and VC 6.0
vc5/6: The left side is VC 5.0; the right side is VC 6.0.

• step 1

• step 2

• step 3

• step 4

• step 5

• step 6: modify class and file name:

CSquaresApp
CSquaresDoc
CSquaresView
SquaresDoc
SquaresView

Ref

• Chapter 7: MFC’s Document/View Architecture - MFC Internals
• Create a single-document project using the MFC App Wizard in VC++ 12.0 (Visual Studio 2013)