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MFCSTL
[STLSoft Projects]

    Template Software for the Microsoft Foundation Classes More...

Modules
Container Library (MFCSTL)
	This library provides facilities for defining and manipulation containers for MFC types.
String Library (MFCSTL)
	This library provides facilities for defining and manipulating MFC string types.
String Access Shims (MFCSTL)
	These shims retrieve the C-string for arbitrary types.
Window Access Shims (MFCSTL)
	These shims retrieve the HWND for arbitrary types.

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Detailed Description

    Template Software for the Microsoft Foundation Classes

The philosophy of MFCSTL (http://mfcstl.org/) is essentially the same as that of the STLSoft (http://stlsoft.org/) organisation: providing robust and lightweight software to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) development community. MFCSTL provides template-based software that builds on that provided by MFC and STLSoft in order to reduce programmer effort and increase robustness in the use of the MFC.

Namespaces

The MFCSTL namespace mfcstl is actually an alias for the namespace stlsoft::mfcstl_project, and as such all the MFCSTL project components actually reside within the stlsoft namespace. However, there is never any need to use the stlsoft::mfcstl_project namespace in your code, and you should always use the alias mfcstl.

Dependencies

As with all parts of the STLSoft libraries, there are no dependencies on MFCSTL binary components and no need to compile MFCSTL implementation files; MFCSTL is 100% header-only!

As with most of the STLSoft sub-projects, MFCSTL depends only on:

• Selected headers from the C standard library, such as wchar.h
• Selected headers from the C++ standard library, such as new, functional
• Selected header files of the STLSoft main project
• The header files particular to the technology area, in this case the MFC library headers, such as afx.h
• The binary (static and dynamic libraries) components particular to the technology area, in this case the MFC libraries that ship with the operating system and your compiler(s)

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