What is the Diference?

[Dexxter]

What is the diference in this commands?

AfxMessageBox("Test"); -----and

MessageBox("Test");

[jim mcnamara]

The afx call is meant for use under MFC. It supports a help context as well.

MessageBox will work for platform SDK development, as well as MFC. No help context.

[CornedBee]

AfxMessageBox does a few things for you.
First it selects a title for the message box (the application name or if that doesn't exist the exe file name). Then it chooses a default icon based on the buttons you specify if you haven't selected an icon.
Then AfxMessageBox does the setup for the context help. It uses an MFC-internal mechanism for that.
Finally AfxMessageBox calls the WinAPI MessageBox.

Actually most of this is done by CWinApp::DoMessageBox, but this is hidden from the user.

AfxMessageBox has an overload which takes an UINT instead of a string. This overload loads the string resource identified by the UINT parameter and then calls the string version passing the newly loaded string. Very useful for localization.

[made_of_asp]

MessageBox is a plain windows API function, included in user32.dll. You would use it in standard Win32 projects that do not require MFC.

AfxMessageBox comes with MFC. I think by using it you add an extra "layer" of processing to your program.

hope that helps