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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TIP: Create In-Place ToolTips on Your Own Controls
Published 05/29/2007
Learn how very easy it is to create in-place ToolTips on your own controls, such as a treeview control.
Multiple Views Layout Without a Splitter
Published 01/25/2007
Learn how to show multiple views in a frame window without using a splitter.
Tab Bar Control
Published 01/23/2007
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.
Progress Sphere
Published 06/23/2006
Learn about a class that displays and automates a translucent, shadowed modal dialog with a progress sphere.
DVD Explorer
Published 06/06/2006
Learn about a new utility to analyse the data's structure on a DVD.
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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...
How to Determine Which Office Version is Installed with VB.NET and C#
Published 01/04/2013
Knowing which version of MS Office is installed on the client computer is vital; unfortunately, many programmers see this as an afterthought. Hannes du Preeze shows you four different ways to determine the Office versions installed so that you don't make this mistake.
Building an Azure Queuing Message Pipeline
Published 01/15/2013
A developer building messaging solutions with Azure Queuing and Azure Service Bus should follow a Pipeline pattern when processing a significant number of different messages. One approach to building a Pipeline is to layer a message following an Envelope pattern.
