Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.
General Solution for a Transparent Control
Published 10/24/2008
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CDialogSK, A Skinnable Dialog Class
Published 07/07/2003
This article discusses the CDialogSK class, which extends the MFC CDialog. See how to add transparency to a dialog, how to add a bitmap to the background, how to set a style for the background, and more.
Changing the background color of a dialog
Published 02/08/1999
Changing the background color of a dialog
Simple way to change dialog's background and text colors
Published 02/08/1999
Simple way to change dialog's background and text colors
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Building a Picture Preview Pane into an OpenFileDialog with VB.NET 2010 - Part 2
Published 12/28/2012
Hannes du Preeze shows you how to add a preview of a selected picture to an OpenFileDialog. Part 2 of this article focuses on the user interface and user interaction with the preview pane.
Top 7 Eye-Catchers of Visual Studio 2012
Published 12/21/2012
With the RTW of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE in August, Microsoft included some new features and nice enhancements. Read on to learn the top 7 items that caught one developer's eye.
