MFC Application: launch a (modal) dialog from a form button

Question

I'm completely new at this and I'm trying to use VS2013 and C++ and loosely follow "Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2010" to figure out how windows form apps and dialogs work. I seem to be miserably failing at figuring out something that should be extremely simple.

I've made a form, MyForm , added a button to it, IDD_DIALOG1 .

I also created a dialog, MyFirstDialog .

I want to be able to launch MyFirstDialog when I click on IDD_DIALOG1 .

The book talks about event handlers, but I can't seem to find a way to get to any, so instead I have been trying to add code in the button1_Click function in MyForm.h :

private: System::Void button1_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {
             MyFirstDialog dlg;
             dlg.DoModal();
}

However, this completely breaks my program, with an assertion failure:

I've looked online but I wasn't able to figure it out at all...

Answer 1

OK, so I believe @The Forest And The Trees is right in his comment above, and WinForms don't work well with MFC.

I am switching over to pure MFC now.