How to: Find Help for MFC Classes and Methods Supported for Devices
Visual Studio Help provides a Smart Device Development filter for the table of contents and index. When you apply this filter, the visible topics are reduced to include only documentation considered essential for smart device developers. Applying this filter is an excellent way to display only the smart device subsets of reference topics, including the MFC libraries.
For viewing C++ topics and reference documentation, use Visual C++ Settings.
If you apply a language filter, such as Visual C#, smart device development topics are excluded from the viewable topics. For this reason, it is better to use either the Smart Device Development filter or no filter at all.
Start Visual Studio with a language development setting, such as Visual C# Development Settings. You can change this default setting to Visual C++ Settings.
How to Set the Smart Device Development Filter
To set the Smart Device Development filter
On the Visual Studio Help menu, click Contents or Index.
In the Filtered by box, select Smart Device Development.
To change your development setting
On the Visual Studio Tools menu, click Import and Export Settings.
On the Welcome page of the wizard, click Reset all settings, and then click Next.
If you are not sure of your options, press F1 to open the Help topic for the wizard.
On the Save Current Settings page, select whether to save your current settings, and then click Next.
On the Choose a Default Collection of Settings page, select Visual C++ Settings, and then click Finish.
See Also
Concepts
List of Unsupported Desktop MFC Classes for Devices
Help Filters for Visual Studio