......@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote: "Ajay Kalra" <ajayka...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1188078902.389301.278000@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... Nothing specfic about your issue but you should not be using MFC to develop activex controls which are deployed over the web. ATL is significantly better as its lightweight. Frankly a 300 KB ActiveX control written in ...

...ha scritto nel messaggio news:1188078902.389301.278000@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... Nothing specfic about your issue but you should not be using MFC to develop activex controls which are deployed over the web. ATL is .... IMHO, ATL (and WTL) is more complex than MFC. One can be a good C++ programmer and use MFC proficiently; OTOH, ATL and WTL are heavily based on templates, and ...

...a windowless control, you should always use the COleControl member functions instead of the corresponding CWnd member functions ...OnDraw(CDC* pDC); So, In order for me to keep developing both controls, I suppose I have to do something like this. CMyControl::OnDraw(... a different sort of registration. Is that generally how developing both kind of controls is done, before I jump ...

"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1188078902.389301.278000@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... Nothing specfic about your issue but you should not be using MFC to develop activex controls which are deployed over the web. ATL is significantly better as its lightweight. Frankly a 300 KB ActiveX control written in MFC is no big deal anymore? -- David

...windowless control, you should always use the COleControl member functions instead of the corresponding CWnd member functions ...(CDC* pDC); So, In order for me to keep developing both controls, I suppose I have to do something like this. CMyControl::OnDraw(... Thanks, Nothing specfic about your issue but you should not be using MFC to develop activex controls which are deployed ...

... windowless control, you should always use the COleControl member functions instead of the corresponding CWnd member functions or...::OnDraw(CDC* pDC); So, In order for me to keep developing both controls, I suppose I have to do something like this. CMyControl::OnDraw(CDC... uses a different sort of registration. Is that generally how developing both kind of controls is done, before I jump head...

> statically linked of course! :-) --- Ajay

...com... IMHO, ATL (and WTL) is more complex than MFC. One can be a good C++ programmer and use MFC proficiently; OTOH, ATL and WTL are heavily based on templates, and other...judge OPs skills in this area. You are correct. Besides the right answer is still not to use MFC for this unless you have a reason for it. ATL was developed for this purpose only and it continues to...

... shortcomings as to what it offers to develop COM components compared to ATL. It stops well short of what a COM component can deliver. I agree. But the main disadvantage of MFC that I remember is it only uses IDispatch and not dual interface. Maybe that doesn't matter. I still kind of disagree with lightweight argument though. Also IIRC,, MFC is almost 1MB in release build and...

> IMHO, ATL (and WTL) is more complex than MFC. One can be a good C++ programmer and use MFC proficiently; OTOH, ATL and WTL are heavily based on templates, and other C++ advanced... no way for us to judge OPs skills in this area. Besides the right answer is still not to use MFC for this unless you have a reason for it. ATL was developed for this purpose only and it continues to be leader in...