OK-CANCEL vs CANCEL-OK
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Mugunth Kumar - 07/30/2009
What order should the OK and Cancel buttons appear? Should it be like Windows or like the Mac? Are there any "rule of thumb" as to when certain standard should be followed or is it just a matter of taste?

General Solution for a Transparent Control
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galexding - 10/24/2008
Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.

SFL 2.0: Service Framework Library for Native Windows Service Applications, Part II
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Igor Vartanov - 11/26/2007
Learn more about this very useful library.

Message Only Window
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einaros - 10/10/2006
Learn how to build an efficient library to provide support for Message Only Windows. The article also shows how to use the Thunk32 library provided in an earlier article, as well as some general pointers on good practices and patterns.

[Updated] BiSplitter 1.1
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Sergey Polyakov - 10/29/2004
BiSplitter is MFC-compatible class for creating a splitter window that looks like a Microsoft Outlook window.

Flexible Screen Designer
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John Indigo - 03/18/2004
The dynamic screen classes allow you to incorporate advanced screen functionality into your MFC applications. The fundamental difference of these classes are that they work with the actual resource in your executable—this means that users of your applications can alter screens that have been designed by you using the MFC resource editor—they can make changes at run time.

Change the Shape of the Window
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Nitin Gahlaut - 11/10/2003
Learn a very easy way to change the shape of a window.

Developing Applications with a User-Customizable GUI Layout
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Ruslan Kolosenko - 01/28/2003
Many applications that use dialogs and form views would be more effective if they allowed a user to customize their screen GUI layout. This article describes a solution that would give developers the possibility to make their applications customizable by users.

Velocity-Based Joystick Controller
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Hitesh Kumar Shah - 11/12/2002
This joystick-like controller can be used to generate velocity-based commands for scheduling actions based on provided thresholds. In particular, it simulates, in software, the physical joystick that kids use to drive their own "Remote Toy Car."

MDI list in the status bar ( and a custom Window List dialog )
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Iuri Apollonio - 10/01/2002
MDI list in the status bar ( and a custom Window List dialog )

Easy! Reports
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Vipul Lal - 11/20/2001
The tool presented here is a simple API that can be used to print fairly complex business style reports.

Independent Message Handlers in Window Message Processing
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Dmitriy Sholomov - 08/29/2001
Updated code with new functionality. Using the Independent Message Handlers in Window Message Processing on the example of CFrameBounder class.

Internationalizing menus using MFC support for Unicode
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Bayram Kuliyev - 07/23/2001
Using UNICODE feature of MFC to internationalization

Visual Component Framework - Libraries and Projects
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Jim Crafton - 03/21/2001
Full-featured visual framework (based on NextStep and Borland IDE UIs) for creating C++ applications

Writing Scribble with the Visual Component Framework (VCF)
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Jim Crafton - 03/21/2001
Great job of showing off the VCF by illustrating how easy it is to create the famed MFC Scribble demo application.

Skin Customization Page for the BCGControlBar Library
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Christian Skovdal Andersen - 03/14/2001
An extension for Stas Levin's excellent toolbar library

Gimme Some Skin... VideoSkins
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Bill SerGio - 02/08/2001
Fantastic approach to adding skins to your Windows applications!

Alpha Blending (Transparent) Windows
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Mike Ryan - 07/30/2000
Article that illustrates how to enable the new Alpha Blending features of Microsoft Windows 2000

Creating Skins with SkinSys Ver 1.0
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Cuneyt Elibol - 07/26/2000
MFC-based application for creating and editing skins for your applications

The WNDCTRL Reusable Class
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Noman Nadeem - 07/23/2000
Easy to use class that enables the showing and hiding of groups of controls on a dialog or view

Framework for Creating Custom Window Captions
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Dave Lorde - 07/16/2000
Fantastic set of classes to develop window content-sensitive captions (including colors '& fonts)

Dynamic Child Window Repositioning
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Hans Buhler - 02/29/2000
Dynamic Child Window Repositioning

Visual Framework (Views, Tabs and Splitters)
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Zoran M.Todorovic - 01/24/2000
Fantastic framework for creating advanced user interfaces

How to dynamically show/hide the Taskbar application button
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Dominik Filipp - 05/16/1999
How to dynamically show/hide the Taskbar application button

An Outlook98 bar-like control
05/14/1999
An Outlook98 bar-like control

Information Bar
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Steve Bryndin - 05/14/1999
New article with source

Enhanced List Control
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Iuri Apollonio - 05/14/1999
Enhanced List Control

A Switcher Control (like the Windows Task Bar)
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Jimmy Brush - 03/22/1999
New article with source

Voice Command Enabling Your Software
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Keith Westley - 03/20/1999
Voice Command Enabling Your Software

Internet mail look
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Alexander Nolasco - 01/24/1999
Internet mail look