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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Dynamic Items
Published 02/20/2003
Sample code that shows you how to dynamically add to and handle items on a menu. (The article was updated.)
Implementing Tooltips for Menus
Published 04/27/2000
Illustrates how to implement tooltips for menus by overriding some key CMainFrame functions
Merging Two Menus
Published 03/20/1999
Merging Two Menus
MRU list in a submenu: the MFC bug and how to correct it
Published 01/18/1999
an explanation about the MFC bug that prevents the MRU items to appear in a submenu and the fix.
Using MRU on submenu
Published 11/09/1998
Using MRU on submenu
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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.
Services Made Easy
Published 06/23/2014
Discover how to easily create and add WIN32 Services in .NET. You’ll also discover the Topshelf toolkit.
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Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Published 06/18/2014
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