Windows Template Library

• WTL is, spiritually at least, what the MFC team would’ve come up with had they started with the C++ language as it is today. It’s an extension to ATL and available as a download from Microsoft.

• If you have trouble downloading WTL, see Petr Prikryl’s “Easy Installation of WTL” post on the Code Project site.

• WTL is pretty much completely undocumented, but you can read about it in a 2-part series by Chris Sells, Dharma Shukla and Nenad Stefanovic (chief engineer on WTL at Microsoft):

  1. WTL Makes UI Programming a Joy, Part 1: The Basics

  2. WTL Makes UI Programming a Joy Part 2: The Bells and Whistles

• You can also read about WTL on iDevResource: WTL Architecture by Dr. Richard Grimes. 

• WTL is officially unsupported, but the ATL mailing list has lots of coverage of WTL.

• The CodeProject is gathering a set of WTL resources at www.codeproject.com/wtl.

• Yahoo has a WTL newsgroup.

• WTL Quick Reference from Bryan K. Ressler