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Toolbars & Docking Windows - Colour Selection Controls 

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Bitmap ToolBar
Updated: 25 Apr 2002
This is my attempt to create a simple toolbar class that allows to set a bitmap in the backgroud of a toolbar
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Nicolas Gazelle 2.53

Toolbars & Docking Windows - Docking Windows 

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CSizingControlBar - a resizable control bar
Updated: 15 Aug 2000
DevStudio-like docking window
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Cristi Posea 4.96
Visual Studio IDE like Dock Container - Second Version
Updated: 2 Oct 2009
Second version of Visual Studio IDE like dock container
C#, Windows, .NET2.0, Dev, WinForm
 
Cristinel Mazarine 4.95
A Document Outline Window for C# Files, in WPF
Updated: 13 Oct 2010
A Document Outline Visual Studio tool window for C# files, coded in WPF
C#, Visual-Studio, WPF
 
tcpc 4.93
Docking Toolbars in Plain C
Updated: 4 May 2005
How to create docking toolbars/windows in plain C (no MFC, ATL, COM, nor WTL).
C, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Jeff Glatt 4.92
Docking CSizingControlBar objects inside ActiveX containers
Updated: 14 Jun 2001
A solution that allows you to dock Cristi Posea's Docking Window class inside ActiveX controls.
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Greg Winkler 4.90
Sizing TabControlBar
Updated: 7 Feb 2000
Creates a dockable and resizable control bar.
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Dirk Clemens 4.82
Views in a Sizeable Docking Control Bar (CSizingControlBar)
Updated: 14 Mar 2000
A fairly simple way to incoporate views into sizing control bars
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Rob Finch 4.67
Updating Jumplists On The Fly
Updated: 2 Feb 2010
This article shows the basics of using jumplists; creating tasks in them linking to another excutable and updating them on the fly.
C#, Windows (Win7), Dev
 
Cylentwolf 4.61
Automatic resizing controls
Updated: 27 Jan 2005
Mechanism to automatically dock/anchor your controls in a window or dialog.
C++/CLI, VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, .NET, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
drice 4.50
MFC Docking Framework
Updated: 12 Oct 2007
An easy to use MFC Docking framework and more... It also shows an applicable method to mix up WTL and MFC.
VC7.1, VC8.0, Windows, MFC, WTL, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Dev
 
Quynh Nguyen 4.37
Visual Studio IDE like Dock Container
Updated: 14 May 2009
Free Windows dock container
C#, Windows
 
Cristinel Mazarine 4.28
Collapsible, resizable and dockable XP style control bar
Updated: 22 Sep 2003
Collapsible, resizable and dockable XP style control bar
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Windows, MFC, Dev
 
Nicolas Gazelle 3.32

Toolbars & Docking Windows - General 

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Sofa, AvalonDock and MEF
Updated: 6 May 2011
Sofa makes the link between AvalonDock and MEF, both using composable elements
C#, WPF, Architect, Dev
 
Sofa Team 5.00
How To Embed An Application Into a Docking Library
Updated: 3 Sep 2011
Step by Step conversion of an application into a Docking application component
C#, Windows, WPF
 
Sofa Team 5.00
A Professional Ribbon You Will Use (Now with orb!)
Updated: 2 May 2009
A serious project on an Office-like Ribbon control
C#, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, WinForm
 
Jose Menendez Póo 4.96
Windows Ribbon Framework in Win32 C Application
Updated: 24 Oct 2010
Adding native Windows Ribbon Framework in Win32 C Application (NO MFC OR ATL)
C, Windows (Win7), Win32
 
Stephen Wiria 4.90
Generating inactive/disabled images for toolbar
Updated: 18 May 2003
Provides an extensible class for drawing disabled and inactive toolbar button images.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Member 307612 4.87
XP style Explorer Bar (Win32/MFC)
Updated: 4 Mar 2004
Implementation of a shellstyle.dll aware XP Windows Explorer Bar
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Ingo A. Kubbilun 4.85
MS Office-like TaskPane Control
Updated: 24 Apr 2007
A .NET TaskPane control, with full design-time support.
C#2.0, VB8.0, .NET2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, GDI+, VS2005, Dev, WinForm
 
Patrick Etc. 4.85
Localized Ribbon Control for Windows Forms Applications
Updated: 6 Oct 2010
Create a localized Ribbon control for Windows Forms Applications
C# (C#3.0), Windows (Vista), Dev
 
Bernhard Elbl 4.83
Pinnable ControlBar
Updated: 4 Dec 2003
This article is based on Cristi Posea's CSizeControlBar
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
 
ziran lin 4.81
Using Custom Controls in a Dialog Bar
Updated: 9 Nov 2007
How to implement owner drawn or subclassed controls in a Dialog Bar
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS2005, Dev
 
Douglas R. Keesler 4.81
User Customizable ToolStrip with Drag and Drop
Updated: 21 May 2010
With this .NET library, you can implement a customize toolbar function in your application.
VB, .NET (.NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5), Visual-Studio (VS2008)
 
pimb2 4.73
Tooltips for Toolbars in Non-CFrameWnd Windows
Updated: 20 May 2003
Explains how to add tool tips for toolbars attached to CDialog or CView descentants.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
 
G. Steudtel 4.71
A dockable, pinnable and skinnable OutlookBar
Updated: 31 May 2005
This article is based on Ziran Lin 's Pinnable ControlBar.
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
 
Tony. Smith 4.67
Adding Text to a Docking Toolbar
Updated: 16 May 2001
This article demonstrates an easy way to add text to a docking tool bar
VC6, Win2K, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
zhaque 4.40
Toolbars with Spinners & Sliders
Updated: 26 Oct 2000
How to create toolbars with spinners and/or sliders
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Masoud Samimi 4.32
Sofa and Prism
Updated: 27 May 2011
Sofa and Prism integration
C# (C#4.0), Windows, .NET, WPF, Dev
 
Sofa Team 4.17
Switchboard User Interface
Updated: 6 Jan 2004
Switchboard User Interface for hierarchical data.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
amkarkha 4.13
A Property Sheet in a Docking Toolbar
Updated: 26 Nov 2004
Explains how to put a CPropertySheet into a CControlBar.
VC7.1, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Bill Heitler 4.00
ToolStripPanel UIAdapter
Updated: 25 Jun 2006
Adding ToolStripPanel support to the Composite UI Application Block.
VB, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Martin Hinshelwood 3.62
A TXPBAR with GDI+ for MFC
Updated: 24 Jun 2008
A XP bar with GDI+ for MFC, like the Apple dockbar.
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), MFC, GDI+, Dev, Design
 
skinui 3.48
Simple Dockable Form With VB.Net - Unedited
Updated: 10 Sep 2008
Create Simple Dockable Form Control
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0), VB (VB8.0, VB9.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC), Office, .NET3.0, .NET3.5, Win32, Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008), GDI, GDI+, COM, COM+, Architect, Dev, Design
 
rio_p 3.46
A raw toolbar for Dialog and Property page with plenty nice styles (version 1.00) - Unedited
Updated: 23 Aug 2006
A raw toolbar for Dialog and Property page with plenty nice styles
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
includeh10 2.97
Using Toolbar on a Dialog Based Application
Updated: 19 Sep 2009
This article will put together the information on how to use a toolbar on a Dialog
C++ (VC7.1), Windows (WinXP), Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003), MFC, Dev
 
Anup Daware 2.42
Painting of CToolbar's parent window (AfxControlBar). - Unedited
Updated: 27 Mar 2008
Background painting of CToolbar's parent window (AfxControlBar).
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0), C, Windows (WinXP, Vista), MFC
 
Paresh Chitte 2.38
Easy Tabbed Mdi Interface Using the ToolStrip - Unedited
Updated: 12 May 2008
Just drop an MdiTabStrip on your Mdi container form, and you have a Tabbed Mdi interface
C# (C#2.0, C#3.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista), .NET (.NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5), Architect, Dev, Design, WinForm
 
beep 1.83

Toolbars & Docking Windows - Libraries 

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Professional User Interface Suite
Updated: 13 Jan 2004
MFC extension library enabling software to be provided with a professional UI
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Sergiy Lavrynenko of Foss Software, Inc. 4.99
Working With Microsoft.mshtml.dll and SHDocVw.dll
Updated: 24 Jul 2008
How to work with Microsoft.mshtml.dll and SHDocVw.dll.
C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0, .NET2.0, WinXP, Vista, Dev
 
EmersioN 2.13

Toolbars & Docking Windows - ReBars 

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A set of classes to create the IE-style GUI
Updated: 19 Jul 2003
The article gives a sample of how to implement Internet Explorer-style sizable re-bar and menu bar controls.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Nikolay Denisov 4.84
TabedReBar Control
Updated: 4 Jun 2004
ReBar control which displays bars via tab panes.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
 
Bahrudin Hrnjica 4.52
Tear-off Rebars
Updated: 26 Jan 2000
This article Implements the functionality similar to the Office 2000 toolbars
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Nick Hodapp 4.51

Toolbars & Docking Windows - Toolbars 

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Customizable Drag-drop ToolStrip
Updated: 5 Dec 2011
.NET ToolStrip allows drag and drop customizaton
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio (VS2010), Architect, Dev
 
Daniel Bennett 5.00
How to verify the bar state info
Updated: 20 Jan 2000
Verify the bar state info in the application profile before calling LoadBarState()
VC6, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Cristi Posea 4.96
vtExtender: ToolStrip Extender, Renderer, and Customization Class
Updated: 16 Feb 2009
Create ToolStrips with fading buttons, custom tooltips, and expose renderer styles..
C#, .NET, GDI+, Dev
 
Steppenwolfe 4.95
Microsoft WORD 2007 Style Semi-transparent Minibar
Updated: 29 Jun 2010
Create a very basic Microsoft WORD 2007 style semi-transparent Minibar with tooltip like behaviour
Windows, MFC
 
Mukit, Ataul 4.92
Docking Toolbars Side-By-Side
Updated: 15 Dec 1999
Demonstrates how to dock toolbars side-by-side
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Kirk Stowell 4.89
Programming Toolbar Chevrons
Updated: 8 May 2003
An introduction to using the cool new toolbar chevrons
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Rajasekar Shanmugam 4.87
How to place controls on toolbars
Updated: 12 Jan 2000
How to place combo-boxes, edit boxes, progress controls, etc. into toolbars
VC6, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Randy More 4.84
A Toolbar in the middle of elsewhere
Updated: 19 Mar 2003
This article explains how to place a toolbar right in the middle of a dialog or a form.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
G. Steudtel 4.83
Very simple true color toolbar (It's true!)
Updated: 27 Jan 2003
This is TrueColor Toolbar class
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
DCUtility 4.75
Toolbar in splitter window pane
Updated: 15 May 2002
How to add a docking toolbar to a splitter window pane
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Tom Shope 4.73
Toolbars with embedded Combo Boxes
Updated: 7 Aug 2002
The article demonstrates how to add single or multiple combo boxes to standard toolbars in MFC applications, how to customize combo boxes behaviour and how to collect user input from them.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Vagif Abilov 4.72
Fixing the toolbar button position bug for MFC CToolBar
Updated: 16 Jul 2007
An article on a bug of MFC CToolBar that may cause incorrect tooltips to be shown for a toolbar button
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Vista, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Mingliang Zhu 4.71
CTrueColorToolBar
Updated: 21 Aug 2002
Very simple true color toolbar (It's true!)
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
DCUtility 4.70
XDriveBar - Display drive buttons in a fixed toolbar
Updated: 11 Aug 2003
XDriveBar implements a drive bar for the drives in a system. The demo project shows how to keep the drive bar in sync by handling the WM_DEVICECHANGE message.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Hans Dietrich 4.70
Adding a drop arrow to a toolbar button
Updated: 15 Dec 1999
Demonstrates how to use the new toolbar styles to add dropdown arrows to toolbar buttons
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Kirk Stowell 4.69
XTrueColorToolBar - True-color toolbar with support for Office-style color button - Unedited
Updated: 10 Jan 2008
XTrueColorToolBar is an MFC class based on CToolBar that provides support for true-color bitmaps, with optional support for an Office-style color picker button.
C++ (VC6, VC8.0), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, MFC, Dev
 
Hans Dietrich 4.69
Multiple Image Sizes for ToolStrip Items
Updated: 3 Aug 2009
This 'ToolStrip' extension automatically selects an image using the selected image size.
C# (C#3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET3.5), GDI+, Dev
 
Lea Hayes 4.68
Dynamic toolbar has fixed size when docked
Updated: 2 Nov 2000
How to ensure that your docking toolbars are of a particular size when docked
VC6, Win2K, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Darren S. Gonzales 4.67
Creating Flyout Toolbars
Updated: 31 Oct 2001
Attach a sub-toolbar/s to another toolbar's button/s. The sub-toolbar will popup if the user clicks on that button a little bit longer
VC6, Win2K, MFC, STL, Dev
 
Y. Hirsh 4.64
How to display tooltips for a toolbar in a dialog
Updated: 10 Jan 2000
Simple technique for getting tooltips when you have a toolbar in a dialog
VC6, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Randy More 4.59
AppBar - How to implement a sliding desktop bar with a simple MFC class and a DLL
Updated: 10 Jul 2008
An alternative to standard Windows AppBars with minimal changes to your application.
VC6, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Jaime Olivares 4.57
Setting the row count of a tool bar
Updated: 24 Nov 2001
Floating a CToolBar with a given number of rows to be displayed is tricky
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Thomas Blenkers 4.53
Disabling the close button on a floating toolbar
Updated: 10 Apr 2004
How to disable the close button on a floating toolbar
VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Rob Manderson 4.48
Using Hot Toolbar Buttons
Updated: 15 Dec 1999
Demonstrates how to add rollover buttons to your toolbar
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Kirk Stowell 4.29
CToolbarDialog - dialog with floating toolbar
Updated: 6 Apr 2004
A CDialog derived class that contains a floating toolbar.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Lucian Barbulescu 4.23
A Flat ToolBar that does not require Internet Explorer
Updated: 24 Feb 2000
A flat toolbar implementation that does not require the updated common controls library from Internet Explorer.
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Joerg Koenig 4.20
ToolBar with Customization and Controls
Updated: 18 Dec 2001
A ToolBar class with customization and Controls
VC6, VC7, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Deepak Khajuria 4.10
ToolBar Customization
Updated: 2 Aug 2001
Toolbar Customization with drag & drop support.
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Peppino Sbargzeguti 4.06
Changing toolbars dynamically at runtime
Updated: 22 Aug 2000
A simple tutorial that shows how to dynamically replace toolbars at runtime
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Masoud Samimi 4.00
Better docking of Toolbars
Updated: 29 Mar 2010
Workaround for toolbar docking issue in VC6 applications
C++ (VC6), Windows, MFC
 
Nataraj1978 4.00
CStatic derived control which is a replacement for standard toolbar
Updated: 16 Jul 2003
ToolBar control with cool look and easy implementation.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
 
Alex Hazanov 3.82
VC6 flat toolbar support
Updated: 9 Nov 2000
When you are porting your MFC application to MSVC 6.0 you'd probably like to use the build-in support for the flat toolbar and kick that third-party solution out of you project to reduce size.
VC6, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Thomas Blenkers 3.80
Adding a Combo Box to a Docking Toolbar
Updated: 12 May 2001
This article demonstrates an easy way to add a Combo box to a docking tool bar.
VC6, Win2K, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
zhaque 3.68
Custom Rendering for the ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls
Updated: 19 Sep 2008
Custom rendering for the ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.
C#, Windows, .NET, Dev
 
bcryner 3.59
Tool Group Manager
Updated: 23 Aug 2000
A reusable template class for managing multiple toolbars, only one of which is displayed at a time.
VC6, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Craig Henderson 3.54
Context-Sensitive Help for Toolstrip Items
Updated: 9 Jul 2008
How to bind context-sensitive help to .NET ToolStrip items.
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0), VB (VB8.0), Windows, .NET (.NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5), Dev, WinForm
 
Ivan Alles 3.44
HeaderToolbar
Updated: 31 May 2004
How to implement a header to your SDI/MDI project.
C++/CLI, VC6, .NET, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
 
Lars [Large] Werner 3.28
Toolbar with image background
Updated: 30 May 2003
Shows how to display a bitmap in a toolbar as background.
VC6, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Cryingwind 3.18
CGSToolBar
Updated: 20 Feb 2001
A flexible extension to the CToolBar class
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Christian Graus, Masoud Samimi 3.17
Adding rollover Hot Toolbars to an application.
Updated: 2 Feb 2002
Adding rollover Hot Toolbars to an application when you don't have access to the toolbar source code
Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Igor Tebelev 3.17
Perforated Tape Toolbar
Updated: 26 Jan 2000
A spectacular variation on toolbars
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Oleg A. Mostovlyansky 3.06
How to Create a Dynamic ToolBar
Updated: 24 Jul 2007
Create a dynamic toolbar, adding a dynamic bitmap and status and tool tip text
C++, C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
rmortega77 2.00

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