MS VC++ 6 class wizard
- by Shane MacLaughlin
Ok, I'm developing an application that has been in pretty much continous development over the last 16 years, from C in DOS, through various flavours of C++ and now is largely based around C++ with MFC and StingRay GUIs and various other SDKs.
While I use VS 2005 for the release builds, I still use MSVC 6 for much of the GUI building, simply because ClassWizard is so much quicker in this environment than the weak equivalent tools that followed. Note that I am using ClassWizard to automatically generate code for my own user defined types (see Custom DDXs) and I like to add a lot of member variables and methods in one go. Creating them one at a time as per later versions of Visual Studio for me is a big backward step. At the same time, working with multiple IDEs is also a pain.
My question is in two parts;
Is there any way of getting ClassWizard to work is VS 2005 or VS 2008?
Is there any drop in replacement, or alternative IDE, that provides similar levels of productivty for old C++ hacks such as myself?
