Discover a class that uses AlphaBlend fading to enhace the status bar.
Status Bar with AlphaBlend Fading Text
Published 07/13/2005
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CExtStatusControlBar: Managing a Status Bar's Panes is Getting Easier
Published 01/23/2004
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.
Showing Tooltips/Icons for Status Bar Panes
Published 09/03/2003
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.)
Showing progress bar in a status bar pane
Published 10/01/2002
Showing progress bar in a status bar pane
MSN Messenger Type Task Bar Message Box
Published 11/28/2001
[Update]This article shows you the source code about making a pop up message window like MSN Messenger.
Tutorial - Write Icon in the Taskbar Window
Published 11/02/2001
This simple program code show how to write or remove an icon from the window taskbar and add a tool tip text. It also show how you can define a user message for trap events generate with mouse action (click on the icon).
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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.
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Published 12/21/2012
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