The macros for serialization, exceptions, and RTTI predated availability of these features in Microsoft C++ by a number of years. The message-handling macros replaced the virtual function mechanism provided by C++.
The macros for message-handling aimed to reduce memory consumption by avoiding gratuitous virtual table use and also to provide a more concrete structure for various Visual C++-supplied tools to edit and manipulate code without parsing the full language. Classes are defined for many of the handle-managed Windows objects and also for predefined windows and common controls.Īt the time of its introduction, MFC provided C++ macros for Windows message-handling (via Message Maps ), exceptions, run-time type identification (RTTI), serialization and dynamic class instantiation. MFC is a library that wraps portions of the Windows API in C++ classes, including functionality that enables them to use a default application framework.
Borland later released Visual Component Library to replace the OWL framework. Eventually, Borland discontinued OWL development and licensed the distribution of the MFC headers, libraries and DLLs from Microsoft for a short time, though it never offered fully integrated support for MFC. Object Windows Library (OWL), designed for use with Borland's Turbo C++ compiler, was a competing product introduced by Borland around the same time. The Community edition of Visual Studio, introduced in 2014, however, includes MFC. As such, it is not included in the freeware Visual C++ Express. MFC was initially a feature of the commercial versions of Visual Studio.
The update features new user interface constructs, including the ribbons and associated UI widgets, fully customizable toolbars, docking panes which can either be freely floated or docked to any side and document tabs. On April 7, 2008, Microsoft released an update to the MFC classes as an out-of-band update to Visual Studio 2008 and MFC 9. MFC 9.0 was released with Visual Studio 2008. MFC 8.0 was released with Visual Studio 2005. The name Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) was adopted too late in the release cycle to change these references. During early development, what became MFC was called "Application Framework Extensions" and abbreviated "Afx". One quirk of MFC is the use of "Afx" as the prefix for many functions, macros and the standard precompiled header name "stdafx.h". Many of those functions share their names with corresponding API functions. Instead, programs create objects from Microsoft Foundation Class classes and call member functions belonging to those objects. In an MFC program, direct Windows API calls are rarely needed.
C++ was just beginning to replace C for development of commercial application software at the time. It does NOT apply to any 32-bit version of AmiBroker.MFC was introduced in 1992 with Microsoft's C/C++ 7.0 compiler for use with 16-bit versions of Windows as an extremely thin object-oriented C++ wrapper for the Windows API. NOTE: This article applies only to AmiBroker 64-bit from version 5.60 to 6.11. Correct 圆4 VC2005 runtime required by 64-bit version has the version number 7.6195
To fix the problem we need to install Microsoft C++ runtime libraries vcredist_圆4.exe manually. Please see the application event log for more detail. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
In such situations we may see the following error displayed when launching AmiBroker: However – it may sometimes happen that the information in the system registry indicates that the required runtimes are installed, while in fact they are missing or incomplete. When 64-bit version of AmiBroker is installed, the setup program checks in the system registry if required runtime libraries are present, and if not – then it downloads and installs proper runtimes from Microsoft website.