   Is Visual Studio required for MFC programming?
  It doesn't seem like it is, however I have run across a couple websites that say that it is, and every tutorial I can find uses the AppWizard and ClassWizard extensively. It seems that these wizards only speed up tasks that I could do well myself. Do you think I should get a book on MFC programming?   
  I think you just need the platform SDK and any compiler that will work with it.That said, why MFC?  If you're starting on a new project, use .Net forms.   ;  Thanks! Yeah, I wish I had a choice. It's for work, though.   ;  MFC is only shipped with Visual Studio and Borland C++ Builder. The PSDK isn't enough.   