An alternative approach in which dialogs are entirely specified as C++ code that requires neither IDE support to be written nor IDE generated resources to be executed. Powered by the C++ type system.

C++/CLI

VisualC++

C++

Windows

AppRunner – Simple ‘desktop shortcut’ replacement

8 Feb 2015 by tkontos

A WTL based, XML driven shortcut replacement

XONOR pointers: eXclusive Ownership & Non Owning Reference pointers

14 Apr 2014 by john morrison leon

A smart pointer system for safe application development in C++.

Changing the Colors of a WTL Dialog (The Easy Way)

10 Sep 2013 by Pablo Aliskevicius

A mix-in class to change the appearance of a dialog, by handling WM_CTLCOLOR* messages, with five lines of code.

EfTidyNet: .NET Wrapper for Tidy library

6 Sep 2013 by ThatsAlok

Free component for parsing HTML, .NET version of EfTidyCom

Resize columns to avoid horizontal scroll

3 Sep 2013 by Nikolay Ananenko

Avoid horizontal scroll and effectivelly use whole horizontal control width: resize all columns except one to their content and this one to all remaining space.

Edit Control with Arbitrary Text Color (Even When Disabled)

5 Aug 2013 by Julijan Sribar

A simple WTL edit control that can display content in arbitrary color even when it is disabled

Gradient Bar Control

4 Nov 2012 by Julijan Sribar

A WTL control to display quality rate

CHandleT - A HANDLE wrapper for WTL

19 Sep 2011 by isemenov

A simple Win32 HANDLE type wrapper.

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 3: Buttons and Menus

11 Sep 2011 by Michael Dunn

This article demonstrates new button and menu features of the Ribbon

How To Build A Simple Text Editor? A Tutorial

7 Aug 2011 by forest.house

This article illustrates the application of ATL/WTL by building a simple text editor based on the WTL objects

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 2: Setting Ribbon Properties at Runtime

18 Jul 2011 by Michael Dunn

This article shows how to control various Ribbon and command properties at runtime

A CWtlPicture Control Based on GDI+

11 Jul 2011 by Ed Gadziemski

CWtlPicture attaches to an owner-drawn picture control and reads, displays, and saves disk or database images

WTLIPicture Viewer: An Update to the WTL BmpView Sample Application

29 Jun 2011 by Ed Gadziemski

An updated version of the WTL BmpView sample application using an OLE Picture object to handle multiple image types

WTL Virtual Listview Control

28 Jun 2011 by Ed Gadziemski

A data-bound extension of the Windows listview control for WTL.

FilePreviewCtrl - Preview Files in Text, HEX and Image Format

29 May 2011 by OlegKrivtsov

This article demonstrates a file preview control in a WTL application.

The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups

27 Apr 2011 by Michael Dunn

This article describes how to lay out controls in the Windows native Ribbon

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Introduction to the Ribbon

21 Feb 2011 by Michael Dunn

A tutorial that shows how to get started using the Ribbon in your applications

Mobile Processor Usage

18 Feb 2011 by Paul Heil

Discover how to calculate the processor usage of every running process in your Windows mobile device

How to Add a Checkbox to a List View Column Header

13 Feb 2011 by Vince Valenti

An example of how to add a checkbox to a list view column header. We also implement select/unselect all when a user toggles the checkbox.

Header-only template library leveraging the ATL CRegKey class

14 Jan 2011 by jean Davy

Read/write serialize/unserialize any kind of arbitrary set of C++ data structures in the Registry.

.NET Asynchronous Design Pattern for Native C++

2 Nov 2010 by Daniel Ranger

Native C++ implementation of the .NET Asynchronous Design Pattern using Windows I/O Completion Ports

Using Input Hooks in Windows Mobile

28 Oct 2010 by Paul Heil

A look at the undocumented message hook functions for Windows Mobile

Using the Connection Manager

30 Jul 2010 by Paul Heil

How to effectively use the Connection Manager API to connect to an arbitrary network.

Microsft Visual Studio 2005 Doxygen Add-In

29 Jun 2010 by aleksey_m_t

MSVS Add-in for Doxygen documentation system

Creating JavaScript arrays and other objects from C++

26 Jun 2010 by imagiro

How to create JavasSript arrays and other objects from C++ code and pass them to the script.

Scraping Text from the Screen

17 Jun 2010 by Paul Heil

How to programmatically read text from any process at any point on the screen

Relook your Old and New Native Applications with a Ribbon UI under Vista or Windows 7 (WTL)

12 Apr 2010 by Alain Rist

Including a Ribbon UI Implementation Guide with examples and a dual UI enabled legacy application

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Taskbar Progress and Status Indicators

14 Sep 2009 by Michael Dunn

An intro to using Taskbar progress bars and overlay icons with your Windows 7 applications

Font Enumerator

1 Sep 2009 by PARK Youngho

A tool that enumerates all fonts installed on Windows, and shows you the preview so as to help you code conveniently.

29 Jul 2009 by Alain Rist

Message map macros, split frames, full screen implementation, and automatic mapping of UI elements.

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Adding Custom Tasks to Jump Lists

29 Jun 2009 by Michael Dunn

Create custom tasks in your app's jump list on Windows 7

A WTL Hunspell-checked Edit Control

21 Jun 2009 by _oti

A WTL Hunspell-checked edit control.

Windows 7 Goodies in C++: Jump Lists

19 May 2009 by Michael Dunn

An intro to using jump lists with your Windows 7 applications

SoftG Application Framework 1.62

13 May 2009 by HotSoftG

Automation framework application development, realize the software functions and software frame separation. Support plug-in support theme

Don Kackman Multiple Monitors Classes Port to WTL

26 Apr 2009 by Igor Vigdorchik

Class wrappers around the Win32 multi-monitor API

C++ Header Guard

17 Mar 2009 by T800G

Create unique preprocessor macros to prevent multiple header inclusion.

C++

WTL

ATL Windowless ActiveX Media Container

5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin

Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.

Integrate the OpenOffice.org Power in a WTL (or Other Native Win32) Application

18 Feb 2009 by Alain Rist

OOo::DocWindow and WTL::COOoCtrl classes to work on any Microsoft-Office document, and Open Office SDK integration in Visual Studio/VCExpress 2005/2008

Multidevice ASIO output plugin for WinAMP

13 Feb 2009 by Domagoj Šarić

A tiny WinAMP output DLL that uses a C++ replacement of the official ASIO SDK that supports multiple ASIO devices.

Device Information

13 Dec 2008 by Jonathan Davies

Use two C++ classes which wrap various setup API calls to obtain, filter and display device names and information

General solution for transparent controls

14 Oct 2008 by galexding

A very simple, integrated method to make controls such as buttons, slider controls, and progress controls to be transparent in a dialog.

A wrapper class for creating a shortcut (.lnk) and a bookmark (.url) and attaching an online icon to it

6 Jul 2008 by jangtimjang

A ready-to-use wrapper class for creating a shortcut (.lnk file) and a bookmark (.url file) and finally attaching an online icon resource to it.

Playing Wave Resources

22 Jun 2008 by jangtimjang

Playing Wave Resources using a low level audio API.

AlphaView

13 Jun 2008 by Noel Frankinet

A virtual WTL ListView control on an SQLite3 table or view.

Animating View Transitions on Windows Mobile

5 Jun 2008 by João Paulo Figueira

How to animate child view transitions on a Windows Mobile WTL application.

Using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

3 Jun 2008 by caio

Using the BITS system service

Using Data Access Objects (DAO) with WTL

5 May 2008 by Gene OK

DAO is old, obsolete, yet it is still very versatile and developer friendly.

WinINet Test Application

12 Apr 2008 by Gene OK

A WTL application to test asynchronous WinINet functionality.

Burn the Edges of Your Windows to Give Them Character

31 Mar 2008 by Michael Dunn

No, that's not a typo

A fast and lightweight cell control

11 Mar 2008 by xueming.yan

A fast and lightweight cell control for displaying tabular data. The cell is a custom control derived from ATL::CWindow.

Create a Convenient Toolbar Assistant Using WTL

11 Mar 2008 by Rocom

A more easy to generate toolbar images.

TitleTips Support for Edit, ListBox and ComboBox Controls

6 Mar 2008 by JaeWook Choi

An article on a mix-in class to support TitleTips for Edit, ListBox and ComboBox controls

WTL Avatar Control

3 Mar 2008 by Andrew Tyapuhin

WTL control for showing full color and grayed pictures with resizing and saving resultant files

Nura Quadris – The Time Killer Computer Game

25 Feb 2008 by PARK Youngho

A different take on a familiar game

C++/CLI

WTL

Dev

Mechanism of OutputDebugString

21 Feb 2008 by zhangyuwu

Write a monitoring application to capture debug messages

Service Browser Application for Windows Mobile

11 Feb 2008 by Valentin Ivanov

Helper application for managing services running under Services.exe process on Windows Mobile platform.

A Remote Windows Mobile Screen Grabber

11 Feb 2008 by João Paulo Figueira

Capture your Windows Mobile device screen via ActiveSync or WMDC.

GPS and Web Service using C++ ATL/WTL (Windows Mobile 6, Standard)

18 Jan 2008 by Valentin Ivanov

This article explains how to use the GPS API and Web Service on a SmartPhone to show demographics information for the current location.

Serial Port Enumeration on Windows Mobile

28 Nov 2007 by João Paulo Figueira

How to enumerate serial ports in a Windows Mobile device (including the virtual ports created by the Microsoft Bluetooth stack).

WTL Docking Windows

21 Nov 2007 by Serge Klimov

This is an implementation of docking windows for the WTL library

Decimal number support for your controls

18 Nov 2007 by Alexander Uckun

The WTL way of adding number support to your controls.

Unusual but Useful Dialog-based Classes Designed for Specialization

11 Nov 2007 by Alain Rist

Featuring cell menu, in-place editor, single control and split dialogs, Vista shell and Mobile file controls and selection dialogs

Outlook Bar for WTL (with XP support!!)

7 Nov 2007 by xanatos

A themed Outlook Bar for WTL (works even without themes).

MFC Docking Framework

12 Oct 2007 by Quynh Nguyen

An easy to use MFC Docking framework and more... It also shows an applicable method to mix up WTL and MFC.

Switch Views in a WTL SDI Application

19 Sep 2007 by Tim Brooks

An article explaining how to switch views in a WTL SDI application.

WTL Helper

27 Aug 2007 by Sergey Solozhentsev

Add-in for Microsoft VC++.NET 2003 that helps to insert message handlers for WTL.

Simple Document / View Architecture for WTL

6 Aug 2007 by Kei Sing Wong

Simple Document / View Architecture for WTL

Nice Custom Controls Library

6 Aug 2007 by Tarmo Kalda

Custom Controls Library offers you a set of different custom controls and API functions.

Nice Libraries

6 Aug 2007 by Tarmo Kalda

Nice Libraries offers you a set of libraries and helper applications

RSS Reader Plug-in for Internet Explorer

16 Jul 2007 by PrafullaT

This is a toolbar for the Internet Explorer which shows information from RSS taken from the Internet.

Keyboard (hotkey) customization class

29 Jun 2007 by umeca74

Offers adjustable keyboard shortcuts for your menu commands with this drop-in class.

A Developer's Survival Guide to IE Protected Mode

20 May 2007 by Michael Dunn

Busted features? APIs failing? Use this guide to get your IE plugin up and running again in protected mode!

A little tool to show some system informations

12 May 2007 by Satervalley

This small tool shows some real-time system information, such as network speed, CPU utilization, time period and so on on the screen .

How to move a dialog which does not have a caption

21 Apr 2007 by Igor Vigdorchik

Two ways to move a dialog by dragging its client area.

CDialogRegionT - Skinning a WTL Dialog

29 Mar 2007 by Robin Debnath

Simplest way to skin a WTL Dialog in 3 easy steps

ScriptRunner Application

25 Mar 2007 by Ernest Laurentin

An Introduction to ScriptRunner. A scripting tool for user interface Unit Testing.

TDXML: XML-Based Task Dialogs with a Visual Task Dialog Editor

19 Mar 2007 by Michael Dunn

A library and a visual editor that make it easy to build task dialogs and use them in your C++ applications

Resizable Property Sheet/Wizard using CDialogResize

12 Mar 2007 by bkausbk

Make Property Sheet/Wizards resizable without much modification.

Nura Tritris - a WTL based time-killer computer game

12 Feb 2007 by PARK Youngho

Nura Tritris is a computer game that a user shall stack balls and match at least three balls to have same colours horizontally, vertically or diagonally. When a user match same colours, the stacked balls shall disappear.

Nura Othello - A WTL Based Board Game

6 Feb 2007 by PARK Youngho

An example of using the WTL library in an artificial intelligence game.

artificial-intelligence

Visual-Studio

Dev

Vista Goodies in C++: Showing Friendly Messages with Task Dialogs

29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn

Using the Vista TaskDialog API as a replacement for MessageBox

Vista Goodies in C++: Monitoring the Computer's Power Status

29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn

How to use power status notifications to make your applications conserve power when necessary.

Vista Goodies in C++: Using Glass in Your UI

29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn

How to add glass to your application's main window.

Vista Goodies in C++: Using the New Vista File Dialogs

29 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn

How to use Vista's new file open and file save dialogs with WTL.

CAtomT - An ATOM wrapper for WTL

25 Dec 2006 by isemenov

A simple Win32 ATOM type wrapper.

Vista Goodies in C++: Using TaskDialogIndirect to Build Dialogs that Get User Input

18 Dec 2006 by Michael Dunn

Using the TaskDialogIndirect API to show feature-packed dialogs that help the user make a decision.

A custom list view control with custom scrollbar control, using WTL

11 Dec 2006 by Shunix

This article is intended to show an opportunity for customizing the list view control (report view, single-line mode) using the custom scrollbar control.

WTL Toolbar Helper

11 Dec 2006 by Rob Caldecott