AFXDLL Versions
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Instead of building your application by statically linking to the MFC object-code libraries, you can build your application to use one of the AFXDLL libraries, which contain MFC in a DLL that multiple running applications can share. For a table of AFXDLL names, see DLLs: Naming Conventions.
Note
By default, the MFC Application Wizard creates an AFXDLL project. To use static linking of MFC code instead, set the Use MFC in a static library option in the MFC Application Wizard. Static linking is not available in the Standard Edition of Visual C++.