What is .NET and whats different in programming from MFC?

[Dan G]

Hi,

i'm a spanking new VC++ programmer and I had a few questions.

What the heck is .NET (i mean in simplest terms)?

How will it affect an MFC Program?

Will I be able to create a program from VC++ that is similar to a C# program?

In other info i should know?

thank is advance

Daniel G.

[Gunn]

Since no one else has replied, I guess my answer won't hurt. Just a couple days ago I had the same questions and set out to find out how I could program an application using this new .NET thing.

Well, it sounds like Windows Forms is the answer for GUI applications on Windows using .NET. Check out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/02/winforms/winforms.asp

I've used MFC for all my applications in the past; after reading this article and others, I think I'll start using this with the beta release of Visual Studio...its seems pretty slick.

[Virtuality]

Don't forget, whoever you intend to have run your code needs to have the .NET platform themselves.