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

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.

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

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

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

Learn about a owner drawn button that can display a bitmap and a dropdown menu with a list of choices.

Learn about a Owner Draw button that loads a bitmap and embeds text on it.

Create round SysMenu buttons and learn how to do flicker-free painting in the caption and more. (New features were added.)

How to create theme-aware, owner-draw controls that are implemented by using the native Win32 API, rather than MFC.

[Update] Render a button in multiple ways, including soft drop-shadow generation, antialiasing with the window background, semi-transparency, and more. This class is an extension to the standard hover button. The new additions are: 1. Buttons in the dialog were not set to be ownerdrawn. This has been corrected. 2. The program now links with MFC 7.0 statically, so users without .NET installed can run the demo.

Class that creates a "button-like" interface toolbar in the caption area

CButtonST v3.7 - The reference control for MFC flat buttons with text, icons and bitmaps.

Learn how to create an ActiveX button control in Visual C++ that looks like a Windows XP button.

[updated] Step by step instructions for creating owner drawn buttons.

Enabling or Disabling controls in more effective and efficient way.

Slider edit box like what Adobe Photoshop has. Cool and saves space.

Using CXPStyleButtonST, with a zero-cost implementation, your applications running under XP will have the new, smooth and elegant style but also will run errorless under old Windows versions.

This is an easy and flexible way to use bitmaps as buttons in your application.

Colored buttons with the default view of a button exactly the same as a normal non-owner drawn button.

This little control, derived from a CButton control, displays the network traffic on a given interface. It uses the Performace API functions to enumerate the current traffic.

A control to choose a character from a specific charset and the options to use bold and/or italic font.

This routine lets you derive a class and implement custom a background paint while still having all the features from the CButtonST control.

Create bitmap buttons used in a simple user interface.

Presents a class that provides for a bitmap button that responds much better to double-clicks

Easy mechanism to create buttons with bitmap images