CCBPropertySheet: an MFC-extension class for creating property sheets with custom fonts.

Learn about a graph to display xy and stats data.

Learn about the possibilites and extra functionality that a simple ListView provides for loading images, either from an external image file, an Internet URL, application resources, and from external EXE, DLL, OCS, or CPL files.

Overcomes owner window flicker when implementing dragging functionility.

Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.

Learn how to paint the background color (paint entire window) of CToolbarby using the "AfxControBar".

Explore an edit control that can display an icon and a prompt text on the background (when the edit control has no text).

Learn about augmented versions of CListCtrl and CListView with sort direction indicators, coloring of the sort column, column hiding, and more.

Learn about the Tab Bar control class that is based on CControlBar and the Windows common tab control; it also uses my wrapper class CTabBarCtrl.

Explore the challenges of developing an MFC application to use on Vista and non-Vista platforms in the context of Vista's new Command Link Button style.

Discover an implementation of a tree view, combined with a list view, for the Windows API. The view is compatible with the tree control of the common control.

Learn how very easy it is to create in-place ToolTips on your own controls, such as a treeview control.

Learn how to show multiple views in a frame window without using a splitter.

Due to a restriction in the Win32 APIs, submenu arrows are always drawn, and always drawn enabled in owner drawn menus. Learn about a workaround for this situation.

Determine when a document has been modified. In the particular case of word processors, most tend to have a "dirty" flag that is set when a user types. This article demonstrates a smarter "dirty" flag that uses probabilistic methods.

Learn about a search files with resources to explore it. The selected resource can be extracted. This tool is a sample of using Splitter, List, Tree, and resource display.

Generate a secure, random password of a desired length.

Learn about a class that displays and automates a translucent, shadowed modal dialog with a progress sphere.

Learn about a new utility to analyse the data's structure on a DVD.

Learn about a progress bar control that follows the mouse cursor by using a system-wide hook.

Discover how to develop your own hyperlink control implementation.

This simple class displays Matrix-like credits in MFC applications.

Learn how to add genuine Windows XP theme support to Rich Edit controls and extend the code for your own custom controls!

Rearrange listbox items using drag and drop without OLE.

Learn how to use OLE to allow users to drag and drop ListBox items.

Learn how to select multiple items without pressing the CTRL or SHIFT key on a touchscreen app or Windows CE app.

Learn about a masked numeric edit ActiveX control.

Learn about an easy and effective way to implement a smooth and flicker-free transparent listbox.

Learn about grid controls programmed with Windows SDK.

Discover a class that uses AlphaBlend fading to enhace the status bar.

Learn how to display a menu with thumbnails and several other windows, move and manage the pieces of a puzzle with a linked list, and then show them without flicker.

Learn about an edit control with a masked input that prohibits pasting text with disallowed characters.

Learn how to lock the toolbars (within a rebar or not) like Windows Explorer under Windows 2000/XP.

Learn about an advanced control based on a standard tree view control. This control supports multiple selection mode and some visual enhancement compared to the original control.

Learn about a simple MFC Rich Edit Control using version 4.1 in msftedit.dll.

Learn how to handle ToolTips that are independent from ToolTip handling in a parent window.

Learn how to change the background color of a text box.

Create true color (24 or 32 bits) image list for trees, lists, and toolbars.

Yet another combo-box but with combined features of multicolumn, ownerdrawing, and autocolumn. Does not use any embedded control!

Learn about two different methods of implementing a static control with a transparent background.

Tom Archer illustrates how easy Visual Studio .NET and Windows Forms make creating interfaces that once required manual coding.

The CCommandLine control can be used to add a command line interface to any application. It supports a "scrollback buffer" of the last 100 lines typed in, as well as a custom scrollbar whose functionality mirrors that found under certain versions of KDE and Gnome.

Implementing and utilizing extensible property sheets in your .NET classes has never been easier.

Enhance your application interface by using a push button that allows you to select its colors.

Learn the different ways of accessing the address book data using Extended MAPI. It explains how to work with both smaller and larger address books in a Global Address List of an organization.

Learn about a set of control-derived classes for a colorful presentation by using XP-styled hottracked controls with themed gradient buttons.

Tom Archer illustrates how to locate files matching a specified extension by using a .NET component and various .NET classes.

Learn how to easily measure the height and width needed to display text values using .NET classes.

Create an owner-draw bitmap button and a frame for the title bar in one class.

Display the results of a SQL SELECT operation. Many grid controls are available for VC++ developers, but this control is small yet contains many features for developers and end users.