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
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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
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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)
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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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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...
A Quick Way to Add AutoComplete to a VB.NET 2012 TextBox
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ALM Tools for Developers in Visual Studio 2012
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