Before using the Stingray Studio MFC products, you need to build the product libraries. Building the product libraries requires that you have successfully completed product installation.

You can obtain prebuilt versions of the libraries by request to Rogue Wave technical support. Prebuilt libraries are available for the currently supported operating systems, along with their associated supported compilers. We recommend, however, that you build the libraries yourself. The prebuilt libraries are built with a particular instance of Visual Studio and the Windows operating system. Building the libraries yourself ensures that they are compatible with your version of the compiler and the operating system they are built on.

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Note that the Microsoft Platform SDK is required to build the Stingray Studio libraries (specifically Objective Grid and Objective Chart) that support XML serialization functionality. The Platform SDK should be enabled through the normal compiler installation, but if you have problems with XML serialization, check that your PATH environment variable correctly points to the Platform SDK.

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