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GroupControl

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2005 Page Views: 178,005 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 6.90 Bookmark Count: 88

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

CButton-derived control to help with using groups.

Combo & List Boxes

ComboBox Controls

Case-sensitive ComboBox

Last Updated: 20 Apr 2007 Page Views: 109,111 Rating: 4.02/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.48 Bookmark Count: 28

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

CComboBox (and CListBox) with case-sensitive searching

History ComboBox

Last Updated: 20 Apr 2007 Page Views: 197,582 Rating: 4.68/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.79 Bookmark Count: 69

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

CComboBox with support for item history.

General

Dynamically re-creating a combo box

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2002 Page Views: 99,859 Rating: 4.54/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.27 Bookmark Count: 40

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Function to recreate a combo box at run-time to allow new styles, preserving its data

Dynamically re-creating a list box

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2002 Page Views: 92,003 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.74 Bookmark Count: 38

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Function to recreate a listbox at run-time to allow new styles, preserving its data, and selections

Edit Controls

General

HyperEdit Control

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2008 Page Views: 74,752 Rating: 4.44/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.09 Bookmark Count: 44

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

CEdit-derived Hyperlink control, so user can edit hyperlinks

Miscellaneous

Custom Controls

Editable Date Picker

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2008 Page Views: 156,179 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.77 Bookmark Count: 69

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Fully editable date picker control based on CDateTimeCtrl

General

Dynamically switchable multi-purpose control

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2002 Page Views: 103,069 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 48 Popularity: 7.67 Bookmark Count: 43

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Control which allows run-time switching between a number of control types, eg combo, edit etc

Control Data Support

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2003 Page Views: 32,002 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.42 Bookmark Count: 8

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A class to enable data to be set on a control

Double List Picker

Last Updated: 16 Jul 2003 Page Views: 44,280 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.44 Bookmark Count: 30

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Control to allow users to pick items from a list, and add to another list

Tooltips

RichText Tool-tip Control

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2008 Page Views: 49,282 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.13 Bookmark Count: 59

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

A tool-tip control with support for rich-text formatting

Static & Panel Controls

Custom Controls

Control Message Bar

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2008 Page Views: 19,726 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.64 Bookmark Count: 83

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Code to add a message bar to virtually any existing Windows control.

Status Bar

General

StatusBarACT

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2004 Page Views: 84,514 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.97 Bookmark Count: 43

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

StatusBar with auto-fit, command notifications, tooltips and cursors

Tree Controls

General

Move Tree Items

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2003 Page Views: 101,257 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.73 Bookmark Count: 50

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Function to move or copy items and their children in a tree control

Applications & Tools

Tools with source code

OnTop Utility

Last Updated: 11 Jun 2002 Page Views: 52,397 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.79 Bookmark Count: 19

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Utility to make selected windows remain on-top of others

Taskbar Sorter Utility

Last Updated: 11 Jun 2002 Page Views: 111,236 Rating: 4.48/5 Votes: 26 Popularity: 6.34 Bookmark Count: 41

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Utility to change order of icons in taskbar

HideIt

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2003 Page Views: 64,147 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 5.48 Bookmark Count: 40

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Utility to hide or unhide top-level windows

Macros and Add-ins

DevStudio Add-ins

Tags Visual Studio Add-In

Last Updated: 22 May 2003 Page Views: 85,426 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.35 Bookmark Count: 33

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Add-In to add Tags support to Visual Studio

Macros

Adding tags support to Visual Studio

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2001 Page Views: 64,156 Rating: 4.21/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 5.66 Bookmark Count: 14

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Visual Studio Macro to provide tags support

Programming Tips

General

Hiding a combo's list after selection

Last Updated: 4 Jul 2002 Page Views: 34,176 Rating: 3.46/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 2.69 Bookmark Count: 11

Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

How to hide a combo's list after selection if the selection starts a long operation

Paul S. Vickery

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Originally from an electronics background, Paul moved into software in 1996, partly as a result of being made redundant, and partly because he was very much enjoying the small amount of coding (in-at-the-deep-end-C) that he had been doing (the only programming he had done prior to that was a little Pascal, and ZX Spectrum Basic!).

Paul swiftly moved from C to C++, and learned MFC, and then went on to real-time C on Unix. After this he moved to the company for which he currently works, which specialises in Configuration Management, and programs in C/C++, for Windows. He has been gradually moving their legacy C code over to C++/MFC, pulling in other new technologies as he goes where appropriate.

Paul uses Visual Studio 2005, his own in-house-designed editor based on Andrei Stcherbatchenko's syntax parsing classes, and various other freeware tools.

Occupation:	Software Developer (Senior)
Location:	United Kingdom