I've just made my first dialog application using MFC. It is interesting that there is no main() or WinMain() function.
I have programmed in C++ for a while, but not Visual C++ and windows applications.

What is substituion for main() finction and how this work?

What is the purpose of BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP?
Maybe this is substituion for main() or ...?

You will see something like this in your application_nameDlg.cpp file:

BOOL Capplication_nameDlg::OnInitDialog(){
//code

// TODO: Add extra initialization here
}

This is "kind of a main" (not really). It is the first thing that your program executes when you run it.
Add your initialisation where it says.
The rest is done with messages - hence the MESSAGE_MAPs. You can add code in order to tell your application what to do when , let's say, a button is pressed and so on.
It's quite easy if you use Class Wizard and you don't really ( ) need to know about the MESSAGE_MAP macros you see - CW will add them 4 u.
I suggest u get yourself something like TYVC++ in n days , and you are ready to start.

Good luck!
Luci

I don't actually know what is the main in MFC, maybe the YourDlgApp class. Thats where everything starts. OnInitDialog is where the dialog class starts...

like luciwiz said, MESSAGE_MAPs is where the messages for your dialog is being processed. yep, classwizard would most of the work for you, but still you need to know it.. there are some messages that classwizrd don't know..

for example, the advanced message such as UPDATE_COMMANDUI,UPDATECOMMANDUI_RANGE could not be done with classwizard.. so you still need to know it.

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