VBGamer

I'm sure this has been covered before, but a search of the board turned up nothing... Does VB use MFC to create it's windows code? I'm pretty sure it does... Sure would make sense seeing as M$ would be eager to use their own stuff. I'm looking into windows development in C++ (don't worry, I'm not defecting... :-) ) and all I hear in the forums is how using MFC kills your framerate and how using bare Win32 code to write a custom windows skeleton is much faster. Is this true? And if so, would it be better to take all the forms out of your VB project and create windows with Win32API calls in your Sub Main()? Is that even possible? Or would all that hassle not be worth the miniscule performance gains? To those who know C++, feel free to answer in that context as wwell. Am I better off learning MFC first and then moving on to writing my own wrapper or is it even worth it?