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
Published 10/24/2008
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A Simple Command Line Interface with a Custom Scrollbar
Published 12/06/2004
The CCommandLine control can be used to add a command line interface to any application. It supports a "scrollback buffer" of the last 100 lines typed in, as well as a custom scrollbar whose functionality mirrors that found under certain versions of KDE and Gnome.
Matrix-Like Credits for MFC Applications
Published 06/09/2004
This simple class displays Matrix-like credits in MFC applications.
HotProp Control
Published 09/10/2003
The HotProp control was designed for applications that need a flexible, modeless property window. (The article, demo project, and source code were updated.)
Office 97 style Colour Picker control
Published 10/01/2002
Office 97 style Colour Picker control
Creating the Monitor Custom Control
Published 09/10/2002
This control imitates the famous monitor of the MS Windows Display properties dialog box. It was built to provide the functionality of representing the screen display with a bitmap image background.
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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.
Command Line Junkie
Published 07/09/2014
While porting a C# applications to something other than Windows used to be hard, today command line tools can make it super easy!
Handling Exceptions in Visual Basic
Published 07/07/2014
Hannes du Preez shows you how to handle exceptions properly in Visual Basic.
Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Published 06/18/2014
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.
