afxwin h file is missing in VC Express Edition

Question

When I try to run the file VC   2005 to VC   2008   1 gt ------ Build started  Project  canvas  Configuration  Debug Win32 ------   1 gt Compiling      1 gt canvasApp cpp   1 gt c  documents and settings ram my documents visual studio 2008 demo stdafx h 1    fatal error C1083  Cannot open include file   afxwin h   No such file or directory   1 gt canvasFrame cpp   1 gt c  documents and settings ram my documents visual studio 2008 demo stdafx h 1    fatal error C1083  Cannot open include file   afxwin h   No such file or directory   1 gt Generating Code      1 gt Build log was saved at  file   c  Documents and Settings ram My Documents Visual Studio 2008 demo Debug BuildLog htm    1 gt canvas - 2 error s   0 warning s               Build  0 succeeded  1 failed  0 up-to-date  0 skipped

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Found this post that may help  http   social msdn microsoft com forums en-US Vsexpressvc thread 7c274008-80eb-42a0-a79b-95f5afbf6528   Or shortly  afxwin h is MFC and MFC is not included in the free version of VC    Express Edition

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Including the header afxwin h signalizes use of MFC  The following instructions  based on those on CodeProject com  could help to get MFC code compiling    Download and install the Windows Driver Kit  Select menu Tools   Options      Projects and Solutions   VC   Directories  In the drop-down menu Show directories for select Include files  Add the following paths  replace   WDK directory  with the directory where you installed Windows Driver Kit in the first step      WDK directory  inc mfc42   WDK directory  inc atl30    In the drop-down menu Show directories for select Library files and add  replace   WDK directory  like before      WDK directory  lib mfc i386   WDK directory  lib atl i386    In the   WDK directory  inc mfc42 afxwin inl file  edit the following lines  starting from 1033     AFXWIN INLINE CMenu  operator   const CMenu amp  menu  const       return   HMENU  menu     m hMenu     AFXWIN INLINE CMenu  operator   const CMenu amp  menu  const       return   HMENU  menu     m hMenu      to   AFXWIN INLINE BOOL CMenu  operator   const CMenu amp  menu  const       return   HMENU  menu     m hMenu     AFXWIN INLINE BOOL CMenu  operator   const CMenu amp  menu  const       return   HMENU  menu     m hMenu      In other words  add BOOL after  AFXWIN INLINE

User · Answer

I encountered the same problem  The easiest thing is to install the free Visual Studio Community 2015 as answered in this question Is MFC only available with Visual Studio  and not Visual C   Express

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I see the question is about Express Edition  but this topic is easy to pop up in Google Search  and doesn t have a solution for other editions   So  If you run into this problem with any VS Edition except Express  you can rerun installation and include MFC files

[visual-c++] afxwin.h file is missing in VC++ Express Edition

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