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Jasper
Jasper

Reputation: 31

Create a forms application with Visual Studio without CLR/.NET

I'm desperately trying to program a small chat program. But I'm not failing at the sockets / background logic as one might expect, but at the form containing the input and output text field!

Visual Studio offers a forms designer, however if I want to use it I have to use the CLR, .NET and precompiled headers apparently. It forces me to use it. I don't want that.

Even if I don't sound like it, I'm a relatively experienced programmer - I just can't stand precompiled headers, .NET and most other Microsoft stuff. It makes me nervous.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3655

Answers (2)

Ben Voigt
Ben Voigt

Reputation: 283733

If you have only the Express Edition, then you have a problem. Best approach if you don't have money for tools would be to download another IDE with a designer for e.g. wxWindows and configure it to run the MS compiler.

With VS2010 Professional or higher, there's a native designer, called the dialog editor, which provides drag-and-drop layout much like the WinForms designer does.

Upvotes: 0

franji1
franji1

Reputation: 3156

You can use MFC or good ol' Win32 API (not really good, just ol'), both of these completely bypass .NET Framework and CLR

Upvotes: 1

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