Programming windows with mfc by Jeff Prosise first example help

markhaloce (2)
Hi. Im about to start MFC programming with Visual C++. I choose book "Programming windows with MFC second edition by Jeff Prosise. But the problem is, on it's very first example it contains some code like this..

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Hello.h
class CMyApp : public CWinApp
{
public:
    virtual BOOL InitInstance ();
};

class CMainWindow : public CFrameWnd
{
public:
    CMainWindow ();

protected:
    afx_msg void OnPaint ();
    DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP ()
};



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Hello.cpp
#include <afxwin.h>
#include "Hello.h"

CMyApp myApp;

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CMyApp member functions

BOOL CMyApp::InitInstance ()
{
    m_pMainWnd = new CMainWindow;
	

   m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow (m_nCmdShow);
    m_pMainWnd->UpdateWindow ();
    return TRUE;
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CMainWindow message map and member functions

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP (CMainWindow, CFrameWnd)
    ON_WM_PAINT ()
END_MESSAGE_MAP ()

CMainWindow::CMainWindow ()
{
    Create (NULL, _T ("The Hello Application"));
}

void CMainWindow::OnPaint ()
{
    CPaintDC dc (this);
    
    CRect rect;
    GetClientRect (&rect);

    dc.DrawText (_T ("Hello, MFC"), -1, &rect,
        DT_SINGLELINE ¦ DT_CENTER ¦ DT_VCENTER);
}


This is all. No ChildView.cpp s or MainFrm.cpp s.
And he doesn't explain how he started with those two files. Just codes. But when I create new MFC application with visual C++ (2013) it generates much more files than Hello.h and Hello.cpp.
And some of them contains some thing like 
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class CMyApp : public CWinApp
{
public:
    virtual BOOL InitInstance ();
};


But not as plain as the example from the book.

So I want to know if is there anyway to start MFC programming with empty MFC project ? Those extra things makes it tricky.

Thanks in advance.
modoran (1988)
Just choose "Empty project" in Visual Studio wizard and then add your files to the project. Or remove the auto-generated ones.
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