A minimum MFC Windows Application

- In Start-up page of Microsoft Visual Studio 11, click New Project... to call-up application wizard.

- Select template of Visual C++ Win32 Project, with name of MFCminApplication, and click OK.


- Click Next on the Application Settings screen.


- Check Empty project option, and click Finish.


- After project created, click Project on the top menu, and select the project properties - MFCminApplication Properties...


- Select Configuration Properties -> General tab, select Use MFC in Shared DLL in Use of MFC property.


- Right click Source Files in Solution Explorer, -> Add -> Class to craete a new source file.


- Select Visual C++ Class, and click Add.


- Enter Class name of CMFCminApplication(both .h and .cpp file name will be generatedautomatically), with Base class of CWinApp, public Access. Finish.


- You will be complained Bass class 'CWinApp' not found in the project. Click Yes to continue adding the class.


- Modify the generated MFCminApplication.h and MFCminApplication.cpp:
MFCminApplication.h

#pragma once
#include <afxwin.h>
class CMFCminApplication :
 public CWinApp
{
public:
 virtual BOOL InitInstance();
};

MFCminApplication.cpp

#include "MFCminApplication.h"

class CMFCminFrameWnd :
 public CFrameWnd
{
public:
 CMFCminFrameWnd(){
  Create(0, L"Hello, Minimal MFC Application");
 }
};

BOOL CMFCminApplication::InitInstance(){
 m_pMainWnd = new CMFCminFrameWnd;
 m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow(m_nCmdShow);
 return TRUE;
}

CMFCminApplication myApplication;

- Finally, you can build and run the application.


- The minimal application change the title only!