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which library is best for windows programing today in Visual C++, which one is most used today, etc
ATL, MFC, WTL and others.. and how many exist ?
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I'll start the answer "from the back": there are many libraries for doing UI on Windows :)
Having said that I do have a few recommendations for you:
If you want to do cross-platform UI development then I suggest you look into Qt framework
If your goal is to do modern Universal Windows Apps - look no further than the UWP technology
For creating COM components I would recommend ATL
If you choose MFC you will probably get outdated in the near future (definitely within the 10 years time frame)
But ultimately the technology stack you chose greatly depends on your language of choice and your expertise as a software engineer
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I'm new in C++ and looking for a way to create gui just like windowbuilder under eclipse (java).
I will appreciate if someone can help me to find tool like windowbuilder.
OS : Linux
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Personally I'm a fan of Qt.
However, it depends entirely on what you want to do. Qt is primarily for cross platform development, so it'll look and act mostly the same between any platform, it also has a large library that may require a bit of a learning curve at first - but the licencing options make it look pretty. Also the documentation is very awesome.
There are of course a lot of other options like:
GTKmm (based on GTK+), wxWidgets, FLTK, etc...
Also this is a duplicate question, so look at some of these other answers:
How do I create a GUI for a windows application using C++?
How do I build a GUI in C++?
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I would like to ask you guys if you know what are the best(comprehensive) books for the following topics:
C Win32/WinAPI programming;
Book or Catalog of windows functions in windows.h and all the other windows library for c;
Book or Catalog of standard C library;
C++ MFC books;
I did my homework, but google does not certify nor guarantee professional answers, i hope Stack Overflow does.
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Petzold for learning the raw windows API
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=157231995X
This will give you a good foundation for groking how things work under the hood. This is important because MFC is essentially a wrapper and and sometimes you have to get lower level. You'll be a much stronger developer if you don't depend on the IDE and wizards for everything. Petzold strongly emphasizes this.
Prosise is good for MFC:
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Windows-MFC-Second-Edition/dp/1572316950
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im starting a new project and for the first time i want to be cross-platform. But the tricky is my project would involve listen server, cryptos etc., etc. So i was wondering what is the best solution for cross-platform development (OpenSSL, instead of MSCrypto etc.) that would be easy to write with VS2010 (yeah the RC). The language is still not specified (depends on witch we would be easier) but im leaning to Visual C++.
In Cross-Platform i mean windows/generic unix compilation.
Qt4 is a complete crossplatform framework, including a very strong socket library.
also Boost.Asio http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/libraries.htm.
The Poco C++ library may be what you are looking for.
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I'm an absolute beginner in Outlook programming and Windows GUI programming in general. But I have lots of years experience in C++ programming in general (not GUI)
I need to develop a Outlook plug-in and my question is where to start?
What do I need to know to let me start?
Can you please give me some useful links to learn ?
OutlookCode.com and it's forums are always my first point of call with Outlook related programming. Also see the Office Developer Centre.
For your specific scenario the COM Add-ins page links to the following ATL/C++ sample.
you can use Outlook ActiveX library or CDO COM library, the best choose is to use the first one if you are sure user has installed outlook
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We want to include data visualization in our desktop GUI (mostly timelines and graphs; clickable, draggable). We want to restrict to open-source, non-copyleft C++ libraries that allow commercial use and are portable across many platforms. Which library can I use? Our GUI is based on WxWidgets.
there is VTK.
And if data visualization is your thing, have a look at opendx too.
I think this question would be easier to answer if you also stated which other GUI components you use. Perhaps that limits the choice of available libraries. Since you're C++ and cross-platform, maybe wxWindows? Would be good not to have to guess.