Is there a way to visually edit a form using the VisualStudio IDE when developing an unmanaged C++app? If not is there a free solution out there for creating editing forms visually?
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Is there a way to visually edit a form using the VisualStudio IDE when developing an unmanaged C++app? If not is there a free solution out there for creating editing forms visually?
You can edit dialogs in the resource editor. That should cover just about everything you usually need.
Otherwise you might want to look into GTK+ and its window designer (too tired to remember the name), there might be a port for Windows.
The main window that loads when I run the app that VisualStudio creates does not show up as a dialog. It does have an "About" dialog a menu. Do I edit a dialog and add it into the main window? How do I edit the contents of the main startup window?
Not graphically, but in code. The main window of the auto-generated Win32 app (which is bad IMHO) is code-generated, so you have to control its look with code.