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They have been pretty vocal about MFC at a few BUILD events during Q&A.

It is in maintenance mode, only bug fixes are planned or little improvements like they did on VS 2015.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt270148.aspx

For C++ on WIndows the future is XAML, for legacy MFC applications there is Project Centennial.




Do you have a link to a video with a time index so I can watch that? It'll be helpful. Even better would be something in writing.

Thanks in advance.


I will need to search for it.

What I have bookmarked is for Windows Forms ones, where they state exactly that.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/04/WPF-QA

Maybe this is already worthy read for you, it also mentions C++.


I see the mention of Windows Forms being explicitly deprecated in that link but no mention of MFC itself. Thanks anyway.


Here you have the statement that there are no plans to support MFC on UWP.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2013/08/20/atl-and-m...

"MFC can't be used for for Windows Store apps because it uses too many APIs that are banned for store usage. In order to allow MFC usage in your scenario we would probably have to break MFC into multiple DLLs, which would be a prohibitive amount of work."


Thanks for the link, really appreciate it. Pat Brenner has since left Microsoft so we can only wonder who is in charge of the MFC stuff nowadays.




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