If you wish to make a Visual Studio style application, there are few quicker options than MFC. You get a lot of functionality just with the wizard generated app.
This is a tad off-topic question, but what do you do if you use that wizard and then work on the app for a bit, and then realize you forgot to cross one of the options in the wizard?
There's no way to change your wizard selections after project generation. You have to dig into the project settings dialogs and change the options manually. Or you could generate a new project with the right settings and merge your code into the new project. I'd say it's worth learning how to manually change the project settings, though, if you're going to be working with Visual Studio for any length of time.
The amount of code the wizard generates is actually remarkably small - most of the interesting stuff is happening in the base classes. You could probably create a new wizard project and merge in what you need, depending upon the options needed of course.
