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.

Coloring a ComboBox is not a trivial thing. Learn how to do it easily and effectively.

This control creates a chart control in a dialog with Pie and Bar styles.

Learn about an MFC Tab Control that's a clone of the Excel Tab Sheet Control.

Displays several clock styles.

How to implement a header for your SDI/MDI project.

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.

If you are writing a telnet-like application that needs a console window, try this simple solution.

Add the CGroupCheckBox component to your project and add a CGroupCheckBox control with Class Wizard.

Code to provide better functionality of comboboxes in the wxWidgets grid class.

An E Notation Numeric Edit Control

Simply by adding some code to your MFC frame windows, you can make your toolbar customize dialog works.

How to create the basis for a file system spy application.

Class to show tooltips and icons for individual panes and to allow changing of text and background color of individual panes. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)

This article explains how to create a transparent edit control. Instead of using a NULL_BRUSH for the CtlColor message, we create a pattern brush using a chunk of bitmap from the parent window from the place where the editor is going to be shown.

Best Practices and Standards in EAI must be practiced for reducing costs and increasing the effeciency for any EAI application.

Learn how to determine whether a printer supports color printing.

Discover a new implementation of a drag and drop in a list and tree control.

Provides an easy way to enter IDs, PINs, product keys, or so. Also interesting for those who want to know how to embed a customized font into an application.

How to make XP Themes Tab Control work properly in other than top orientation.

Discover how to build a translucent menu.

The status bar's panes may contain almost any control you need: buttons, edits, animations, progress bars, and more. Learn to enable panes so you can add or remove them on the fly from the application's status bar.

Add extra features to the MFC Grid Control so that the user can format the cells as in a spreadsheet program.

Learn how to implement a customized report list control with in-place combo box and edit control by using the reusable classes.

Create a smart static control that features scrolling text.

Learn how to navigate through the controls the way one navigates in an Excel sheet.

Create check boxes in tree controls that show partial selections.

Create a small, easy-to-use image button that looks as good as a native Windows button. Avoid the messy complications that arise when using most other custom image buttons.

Extends CButton to create check boxes that can display LEDS or any icon to indicate on/off state. Extend MFC to subclass common controls and apply owner drawing to obtain any desired look.

Learn a simple way to add tooltips to menu items. (The demo/source and header files were updated.)

Dynamically create menus from XML files.

A multi-column tree view that is only 12 Kb long. It works excellently if you don't need all those colors, fonts, sorting, and whatever.

Discover an example of data structures for the realization of constructing a one-to-many relationship between two data structures.

Create an editable FlexGrid Control.

Integrate into your applications a very simple, collapsible XP-style menu that is dockable and resizable.

Learn about a custom navigation control that allows a user to scroll horizontally through any number of items, selecting them, marking them, and/or setting them as completed.

An RTF word processor that has standard features that include menus, a toolbar, a status bar, printing, open and save file dialogs, font support, tooltips, and much more. (The source code was updated.)

A simple interface based on Internet Explorer that implements features introduced in Windows XP and remains compatible with all OS versions since Windows 98. Includes support for alpha channel images under Windows XP, both 3D and flat (XP) style, and rebar menu with full mouse and keyboard support. (The demo project and source code were updated.)

The HotProp control was designed for applications that need a flexible, modeless property window. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)

The bare bones necessary to make wholly owner drawn menus, including the TOP MENU LINE. Once this is understood, one can proceed to write all kinds of classes to encompass the menu and make it look as fancy as one wants. (The article and source code were updated.)

This Unicode-ready menu bar routine will create a resizable pop-up menu that docks and floats like a DevStudio Menu Bar. Learn the details needed to implement a menu bar in just four easy steps. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)

Convert RTF data to HTML data.

Details about the implementation of the Microsoft Flexgrid in Visual C++.

Learn how to skin a CListCtrl, including the CHeaderCtrl and the scrollbars. You will be able to totally customize the look and feel of almost all the aspects of a CListCtrl. (The article, demo program, and figures were updated.)

A masked edit control allows per-character masking. Also, it can be put into passworded mode. There may also be read-only text inside of the box the user can not modify.

The sample file was included.

A simple article showing how to add controls to a list box. Includes coverage of adding the message handlers for each control.

Tips and tricks for working with non-standard operations for properties. This includes changing the coordinates of buttons, hiding and moving the standard buttons, changing the tab label, using images with the tab label, placing images in the property sheet, adding new controls, and more.