Thank to Microsoft who always gives their users simplicity in each version of Visual Studio. I've been using it for more than 10 years, since I learned how to code in Visual Basic 6.0. And everything become much simpler because of emergence of .Net technology. But the terrible thing happened to Visual C++ in VS2010, the intellisense is not working. Yes, I know the main feature of VS is Visual Basic and C#, but why do they mess Visual C++ up?

Until good news is coming, VC++ Intellisense is available again in VS2012, but also with the bad news, they miss to provide Windows Forms Project Template Wizard for creating Windows Form in VC++. What do they want exactly?

All right, stop complaining anymore. I'll show how to create Windows Form without wizard in VC2012. Hopefully you can still use it if Microsoft keeps throwing out the wizard in next VS version. Open your Visual Studio 2012 IDE and follow these steps:

Select FILE - New - Project. In New Project dialog box, select Visual C++, CLR, then CLR Empty Project. Fill Name and Location as desired. Click OK.

After CLR Empty Project is created, select PROJECT - Add New Item then a dialog box will appear. In the dialog box, select Visual C++ - UI - Windows Form, just leave Name text box and click Add.

Go to Properties by selecting PROJECT - [ProjectName] Properties. In this example, [ProjectName] is WinFormProject.

Change the linker SubSystem to Windows by selecting Configuration Properties - Linker - System - SubSystem in Property pages.

Set the linker option by selecting Configuration Properties - Linker - Advanced - Entry Point and fill "main" in the text box.

Save all of changing made and then open MyForm.cpp (if you name your Form as MyForm.h) and make it look exactly like this:

As you see in code listing above, Line 1 is generated automatically and it can be different if your Form Name is not "MyForm". And in Line 11 you have to change [ProjectName] with your Project Name, for example is WinFormProject (without square bracket).  Build the project and run, you will get the Window Form.