Discover a very simple, integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl, and progress control transparent in a dialog box.
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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
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Learn about a class that displays and automates a translucent, shadowed modal dialog with a progress sphere.
DVD Explorer
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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)
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...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and the new ASP.NET Web API
Published 04/06/2012
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
