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.
.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...
Obtaining External Window Handles and Window Captions with Visual Studio 2012
Published 05/15/2013
Learn how to obtain an outside application's window handle, in order to manipulate that window from inside your program, using either VB.NET or C#.
SOLID Principles in C# - An Overview
Published 05/01/2013
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
