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Dominique
Dominique

Reputation: 17565

What do I need to do to program an MFC/STL program in Visual Studio?

I've installed Visual Studio on my private PC, the version is "Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019", version 16.1.6.

In order to prepare a job interview, I'd like to do some basic MFC/AFX programming, starting by the basic CMapStringToString example from the Microsoft website. This, however, seems not to work, as I don't have access to the mentioned file afxcoll.h. Indeed: there is no file, called afx*.h on my PC.

Is this a limitation of my free downloaded Visual Studio installation, or is there any add-in, add-on, extension or whatever I can install in order to work with CMapStringToString objects?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 496

Answers (1)

Adrian Mole
Adrian Mole

Reputation: 51894

You need to explicitly install MFC support in Visual Studio - which you can do on Community editions:

  1. Open Visual Studio Installer from your Start Menu
  2. Click the Modify button
  3. Select the Individual Components tab
  4. Scroll down to SDKs, Libraries and frameworks
  5. Check the various MFC/ATL options for various platforms

Upvotes: 2

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