Chapter Twenty-Three -- MFC Programs Without Document or View Classes

Chapter Twenty-Three

The document-view architecture is useful for many applications, but sometimes a simpler program structure is sufficient. This chapter illustrates three applications: a dialog-based program, a Single Document Interface (SDI) program, and a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program. None of these programs uses document, view, or document-template classes, but they all use command routing and some other Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library features. In Visual C++ 6.0, you can create all three types of applications using AppWizard.

In each example, we'll look at how AppWizard generates code that doesn't rely on the document-view architecture and show you how to add your own code to each example.