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title: "what is the role of MFC, SDK and API"  
description: "what is the role of MFC, SDK and API"  
author: "Amit Singh"  
published: 2010-09-29  
updated: 2011-05-20  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/5/what-is-the-role-of-mfc-sdk-and-api  
category: "visual c++"  
tags: ["visual c++"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# what is the role of MFC, SDK and API

what is the [role](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/audio/1254/the-role-of-visualization-in-achieving-your-goals) of MFC, [SDK](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/260/creating-window-program-in-vc-by-using-sdk) and [API](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12641/instagram-api-upgraded-to-facebook-graph) in VC++\

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### Reply by Anonymous User

## MFC in VC++

The Microsoft Foundation Class Library (also Microsoft Foundation Classes or MFC) is a library that wraps portions of the Windows API in C++ classes, including functionality that enables them to use a default application framework. Classes are defined for many of the handle-managed Windows objects and also for predefined windows and common controls.


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