Learn how to navigate through the controls the way one navigates in an Excel sheet.

The bare bones necessary to make wholly owner drawn menus, including the TOP MENU LINE. Once this is understood, one can proceed to write all kinds of classes to encompass the menu and make it look as fancy as one wants. (The article and source code were updated.)

A bare-bones presentation to help you understand how to handle message maps from a C++ viewpoint.

Getting a docking toolbar in a dialog is not easy. I do a small trick -- I make a dialog behave like a toolbar, thus making a lot of GUI gimmicks easy to incorporate.

Create round SysMenu buttons and learn how to do flicker-free painting in the caption and more. (New features were added.)

An insight into the inner workings of CRITICAL_SECTION and thread priorities.