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- From: Rob Stewart <stew@datalytics.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: help:what is missing in visual c++ 1.52 compared with 4.0?
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:52:09 -0500
- Organization: Datalytics, Inc
- Message-ID: <31613F19.730B@datalytics.com>
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- Dave Kelly wrote:
- >
- > yuehong@brahms.udel.edu (Yue-hong Zheng) writes:
- > >So, I am wondering what is good about 4.0 and which part is missing in
- > >1.52?
- >
- > Well, I found out much to my dismay that templates are not supported in 1.52.
- >
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- 1.52 doesn't support C++ exceptions--it uses macros to implement
- them, with non-standard syntax. 1.52 supports only 16 bit apps;
- 4.0 supports only 32 bit apps. MFC has been improved and
- extended. 4.0 supports OCXs and 1.52 supports VBXs. 4.0 offers
- many usability enhancements.
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