I am an experienced programmer learning c++. I can create a window and write text into it but can't see how to create a screen that allows the user to enter data and return it to the program. I have spend several hours trying to find something useful in the tutorials and documentation available.

For WinForms with C++, see : Create C++ Windows Forms application in Visual Studio 2017 It works with VS 2019 too, with Prerequisites from Compile a C++/CLI Program that Targets the CLR in Visual Studio For GUI with standard C++, use the generated application from the Win32 Wizard (or Walkthrough: Create a traditional Windows Desktop application (C++) ) and add controls like "Edit", "Button", ...etc with CreateWindow(Ex) or use MFC

Where can I learn how to create a form in c++?

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Castorix31 83,286 Reputation points

2020-08-23T08:27:51.867+00:00

For WinForms with C++, see : Create C++ Windows Forms application in Visual Studio 2017
It works with VS 2019 too, with Prerequisites from Compile a C++/CLI Program that Targets the CLR in Visual Studio

For GUI with standard C++, use the generated application from the Win32 Wizard (or Walkthrough: Create a traditional Windows Desktop application (C++)) and add controls like "Edit", "Button", ...etc with CreateWindow(Ex)
or use MFC
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Keith Lovell 61 Reputation points

2020-08-24T05:42:29.347+00:00

Thanks for this. I followed the instructions (I think) but am getting a link error

Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function "int __cdecl invoke_main(void)" (?invoke_main@@YAHXZ) FormsTrial C:\Users\Keith\Programming\Development\CPlusPlus\FormsTrial\MSVCRTD.lib(exe_winmain.obj)

I am using Visual Studio 19 and when I created the project all of the CLR options had a .NET reference so I took the closest to the description in the tutorial.

Any thoughts on what I need to do?

Castorix31 83,286 Reputation points

2020-08-24T06:16:25.46+00:00

Did you choose "CLR empty project" ? like this :

Keith Lovell 61 Reputation points

2020-08-25T05:33:51.957+00:00

Yes. I did. After I posted the comment, I discovered that I had missed one of the steps in setting up the configuration. It all works fine when I did. I "accepted" your solution but could not find my comment to delete it. My plan is to do some experiments with this solution over the next few days. I come will back if I get stuck again (which is very likely!!!).
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