Tutorials

This article serves as a brief introduction to the new API allowing users to create animations in MFC applications.

A number of factors are driving the requirement for applications to correctly support high DPI settings--increased monitor resolutions are making it more difficult for users to read text on the screen, compliance with disability access legislation is an increasingly important factor for corporations, and users are now expecting applications to behave well at higher DPI settings. MFC 10 and Visual C++ 2010 have built-in support for high DPI, making the development of a DPI-aware application quicker and more simple.

The introduction of the iPad and other slates demonstrates that end users have a strong appetite for touch-enabled experiences. MFC 10 adds comprehensive support for touch functionality, allowing users with tablet PCs and digitizers to interact with applications in a simple, natural manner, including gestures and multi-touch.

The Office 2007 suite of applications introduced the Ribbon UI element to combine and simplify application toolbars and menus into a single, consistent area for invoking task-specific application commands. Windows 7 ships with a Ribbon control, and Visual C++ developers have easy access to this built-in Ribbon functionality through MFC 10 enhancements.

Discover the new features in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and how you can leverage them in your applications.

The Windows 7 Taskbar is one of the most noticeable and useful features of the new operating system, and MFC 10 introduces a number of enhancements that make it easy to integrate the Taskbar with your application.

Windows Vista and 7 provide the ability to restart crashed or hung applications and recover your work. By building on the strength of the Document-View Architecture, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) 10 allows new and existing applications to easily take advantage of these Windows features.

A comprehensive article on how to make a CTreeCtrl really virtual -- good for handling large data trees.

Windows 7 brings a new level of maturity to Windows Search, and by taking advantage of new MFC functionality first publicly unveiled with the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010, writing a Search filter handler for an MFC application can be easily accomplished.

This article explains how one can use WPF and Windows Forms windows from native code as modal windows, and what are the problems that can arise and what are the solutions.

Check out this commercial-grade cross-platform Harel UML StateChart open-source application framework named StateWizard for concurrent, distributed, and real-time reactive system development with simplicity, efficiency, and scalability.

Discover some ways to increase the performance of 64-bit Windows applications.

C++ programs consist of classes, functions, variables, and other component parts. To get a sense of how a program fits together, you must see a complete working program.

Learn about MFC Feature Pack, a Microsoft extension to MFC that allows developers to enable Office 2007, Visual Studio, or IE look and feel to their VC++ applications.

In an MDI application, the MDI client is a child of the top-level window. Learn to use this special window as a child of another child.

Use the NZR framework to visualize point data in 3D space.

Learn about methods to start, pause, resume, and stop a thread by using _beginthreadex in an MFC dialog application. The sample shows how to update a MFC control as well as how to properly shut down a thread.

Learn how to create and implement DLLs without MFC.

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

CLanguageSupport: With a few lines of code, add automatic UI language selection and a language selection menu to your app. CLanguageSupport is your resource DLLs manager (also known as satellite DLLs).

Multilingual Library adds multiple UI languages' support to your MFC application.

Learn how set up an OpenGL rendering context inside an MFC control and make use of the timers MFC has to offer.

This article, the first in a series, shows how to write and compile files containing assembly language using Visual C++.

This article covers registers, functions, and a few important assembly language instructions.