Visual Designer for native Win32 Apps

Question

i have been a C# developer for a long-time now so i have huge experience with Winforms. i wanted to start VC++ development so that i can write native apps.

I know C++ very well. The problem is i have made test projects in VS2010, Win32 Application, MFC Applications and all, it doesn't provide a Visual Designer like there is for VC# Winforms and VC++ Winforms as well. i want to have a Visual designer for Native App Development like for Win32 Apps.

• Is it possible?
• How to do it?

Aurochs

Answer 1

There is a dialog designer for MFC. Provided you setup your project correctly, you can use the designer to layout your MFC windows. See this answer for details.

For other libraries, there are other options, as well. For example, Qt Creator allows you to visually design Qt windows via Qt Designer.

Whitehot

@JunaidSaeed Pretty much - Qt Designer is more like Windows Forms designer - if that's what you're after, but for native dev. – Whitehot