Due to a restriction in the Win32 APIs, submenu arrows are always drawn, and always drawn enabled in owner drawn menus. Learn about a workaround for this situation.
Owner Drawing the Submenu Arrow
Published 12/19/2006
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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Using XML
Published 03/26/2004
Best Practices and Standards in EAI must be practiced for reducing costs and increasing the effeciency for any EAI application.
Building Translucent Menus
Published 02/03/2004
Discover how to build a translucent menu.
CXmlMenu'�Display Menus from XML Files
Published 11/20/2003
Dynamically create menus from XML files.
Collapsible, Resizable, and Dockable XP-Style Control Bar
Published 09/24/2003
Integrate into your applications a very simple, collapsible XP-style menu that is dockable and resizable.
The Easiest Way to Code the Owner Drawn Menu
Published 09/08/2003
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.)
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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
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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.
