Explore an edit control that can display an icon and a prompt text on the background (when the edit control has no text).
Edit Control with Icon and Background Text
Published 03/24/2008
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Secure Random Password Generator
Published 06/20/2006
Generate a secure, random password of a desired length.
Customizable Masked Edit Control
Published 05/12/2005
Learn about an edit control with a masked input that prohibits pasting text with disallowed characters.
SP Numeric Edit Control
Published 02/22/2005
Learn about a masked numeric edit ActiveX control.
Changing the Background Color of an Edit Control
Published 01/24/2005
Learn how to change the background color of a text box.
XP Style CColorControl Class with Themed Gradient Buttons
Published 10/04/2004
Learn about a set of control-derived classes for a colorful presentation by using XP-styled hottracked controls with themed gradient buttons.
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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...
Serializing & Deserializing Objects with VB.NET 2012
Published 06/28/2013
There are many ways to serialize data; you can serialize info into and from the registry; you can store and load info from a database, or from a file. Hannes du Preez shows you how to save info to an XML file and load it from that XML file.
Building and Consuming Async WCF Services in .NET Framework 4.5
Published 06/26/2013
Learn how simple it is to build and consume WCF services using the async and await keywords in .NET Framework 4.5.
