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Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.

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.

This simple class displays Matrix-like credits in MFC applications.

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

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.