MFC

One of the problems we find with MFC is that due to its original design spec it tends to make it difficult to write nicely encapsulated C++ code. It is possible, but the wizards tend to encourage you to spread functionality all over the place. The controls found in these pages try to wrap all of their functionality up into self-contained, easy to reuse, packages.

We don't want to have to cut and paste message handlers out of a dialog that almost does what we need, we want to plug in controls that do it all for us! I also hate having to implement additional functionality more than once. If I have code that would work equally well with a list box or a combo box then I want to put that code in a template that can be used with both. MFC doesn't help much here. But it is possible.

Articles:

Include/Exclude list boxes. - How to package lots of standard functionality into a CListBox derived class.

Templates - Templates are a great way of reusing code, unfortunately MFC makes it hard to write MFC friendly template classes...