MFC vs WinForms vs SWT

All that you need to know to embed an Office application into:

MFC
http://www.rsdn.ru/article/com/xoffice.xml and http://www.rsdn.ru/article/com/autoatl.xml
two articles in about 10-12 pages - beat in a drum to adjust a project


WinForms
http://blogs.gotdotnet.ru/personal/k_savelev/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6d39ad7d-d1ae-4daf-8ce2-9b881ca7091a
A heap of links, ready external component and therefore a little headache when installing application to client


SWT
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/SWT-JFace-Eclipse/WordOLE.htm
a couple strings of code and everithing works from the box

CPPUnit Addon

I had to dig CPPUnit a little to have a possibility to inspect values of MFC CString in case of test failure.

#include <cppunit/TestAssert.h>

CPPUNIT_NS_BEGIN
// specialization for the CString type
template<>
struct assertion_traits<CString>
{
  static bool equal( const CString& x, const CString& y )
  {
    return x == y;
  } 
 
  static std::string toString( const CString& x )
  {     
    // adds quote around the string to see whitespace
    OStringStream ost; 
    ost << "\""<<(LPCSTR)x<<"\"";
    return ost.str();;
  }
};
CPPUNIT_NS_END

When I'll have enough time I'll readjust CompilerOutputter a little to have nice green and red lines in the console :)

The programming: MFC nonsense

Nonsense:

This does not work:

combo.SetRedraw(FALSE);
//Blah-blah-blah
combo.SetWindowText("something not in list");
combo.SetRedraw(TRUE);

And this works:

combo.SetRedraw(FALSE);
//Blah-blah-blah
combo.SetRedraw(TRUE);
combo.SetWindowText("something not in list");

Sucks...