--- Axel Simon wrote:

The question is whether people would consider GUIs written with MFC as the native user interface. Do C# and Visual Basic build on MFC or are they restricted to plain Win32?

The Microsoft Office and most of others Microsoft and third party software products are written using MFC. I think that the answer to your first question is True. The .NET and Visual Basic uses its own GUI libraries which are independent of MFC. The trouble here is that MFC is written in C++ and only for C++. This makes difficult to use it from VB or .NET. But yet the .NET and VB are both based on comctl32.dll and provides many extensions like dockable toolbars. The same is true for VCL and CLX in Delphi.

Another example where you are quite deliberate is when you specify the About dialog box for which no common dialog exists on Gnome or Windows. I don't want to be too picky about that since the programmer does not have to use them, but I am picky if the user has to use them (as is the case with toolbars).

The About dialog for Gnome is implemented in libgnomeui and it is recomended to use it.

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The standard menus in Windows cannot display bitmaps but there exists many MFC extension which provides the this feature (Stingray, Dundas and other toolkits).

Yes, and there is an extension to support resizable dialogs. But that all is a breach, I think.

The bitmap menus are not provided from MFC and comctl32.dll but many applications uses bitmap menus. Examples: Microsoft Office, Micosoft Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer ... Are they violate the platform guidelines?

What do you mean by bitmap menus? I assume those are menu items with a smaller version of the tool bar icons to the left of them, right?!

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