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XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

by Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

Control Message Bar

by Paul Vickery

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

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

by Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

by Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

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Hex Control for C++/Win32 applications.

by Jovibor

Fully featured Hex Control written in C++ with the help of the MFC library.

An MFC COM Wrapper Code Generator Using COleDispatchDriver

by Ben Hanson

IDispatch C++ Code Generation Done Right

Hosting of MFC MDI Applications from Within WinForms and WPF Applications

by Alexey Shalnov

Building old MFC app in .NET app, replacing MFC MDI Framework with modern WinForms or WPF Framework and integrating MFC Views and Dialogs in it

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

An alternative Windows version to the famous Total Commander!

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MFC

XQueue - a non-MFC C++ class to manage an interprocess queue

17 Jan 2005

Hans Dietrich

XQueue implements a shared-memory first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, based on memory-mapped files, that works on all versions of Windows.

Control Message Bar

23 Oct 2008

Paul Vickery

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

XResFile - Files Stored in Resources: Part 2 - Zip Files

19 Jul 2007

Hans Dietrich

This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to reading files stored in your program's resources. Along the way I will present some non-MFC classes to assist you in reading text, binary, zip, and even encrypted files that have been compiled into your program as resources.

Guide to WIN32 Regions

10 Mar 2002

Paul M Watt

Guide to understanding how to create and use regions with the WIN32 SDK

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part VI

26 May 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that can be used on the Send To menu.

The ALXGrid Control Library.

10 Nov 2002

Alexey

The ALXGrid Control Library is a set of classes for management of data as a table.

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

4 Sep 2002

Stephane Rodriguez.

This article demonstrates how to automate IE's Save As functionality

SAPrefs - Netscape-like Preferences Dialog

20 Apr 2002

C^hris L^osinger

A base class for a prefereneces dialog, similar to that used in Netscape

Screen Capture to the Clipboard

5 Apr 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

How do you capture the bitmap of a window? This little download shows how, and places the bitmap on the clipboard.

Adding New Theme Variations to the MFC Ribbon (CMFCVisualManager)

1 Nov 2017

peterboulton

Add new Ribbon themes to MFC application built using VS Feature Pack' classes

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017

Petrov Vladimir

Former NeHe OpenGL Lessons adapted to MSVS-15 pro MFC in INICODE and the samples of the Joystick implementation

CSNTPClient - An SNTP Implementation

7 Apr 2000

PJ Naughter

A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the SNTP protocol.

Classes for computational geometry

26 Dec 2001

Chris Maunder

Some classes and utility functions for general computational geometry

MDISnap

29 Nov 2004

peterchen

Do your users a favor - add snapping edges to MDI child windows (or anywhere else).

Using text callbacks in ListView Controls

26 Nov 1999

Chris Maunder

Shows how to use text callbacks in list controls

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions - Part IV

24 May 2006

Michael Dunn

A tutorial on writing a shell extension that provides custom drag and drop functionality.

How to dynamically link to oleacc.dll in Visual C++ .NET

9 Jun 2002

Chen Hao

How to control the dependancy on oleacc.dll in your Visual C++ .NET applications

Creating Alternate GUI using Vector Art

6 Feb 2000

Keith Rule

Create visually complex, yet programmatically simple, non-rectangular GUIs

The alxBase classes for work with DBF files

5 Nov 2002

Alexey

The alxBase classes for work with dbf files.

CSplitButton with Images

19 May 2021

Michael Haephrati

How to enhance the MFC CSplitButton control to support images

Enhanced CListCtrl that accepts and filters dropped files and folders

6 Feb 2000

Stuart Carter

This article explains how to support file drag and drop in your CWnd-derived object

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 1 - Code 39

14 Jun 2002

Neil Van Eps

An article on drawing Code 39 barcodes to the screen or to the clipboard

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

27 Aug 2002

Nish Nishant

A wrapper class for SHFormatDrive (XP/2K only). Corrects some errors in KB article Q173688

The SBJ MVC Framework - The Model, from Abstraction to Realization

20 Mar 2009

SBJ

A Model-View-Controller Framework that integrates with the MFC Doc/View architecture

Group Combo Box

19 Nov 2013

Julijan Sribar

Easily extensible owner-drawn combo box with items grouping and sorting

Custom URL Protocol for Invoking Application

6 Mar 2012

Chandrakantt

Registering a custom URL protocol for invoking an application

Magic Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

5 Dec 2019

Petrov Vladimir

Compact and simply Vector Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

computational-geometry

Init Threads in MFC and Win32

17 Oct 2021

Petrov Vladimir

Starting Threads in MFC and Win32 and some handling samples

multi-threading

CCeButtonST v1.2

18 Dec 2001

Davide Calabro

The reference control for MFC flat buttons with text and icons. Give your CE applications a professional look!

BUG in _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR and _com_util::ConvertBSTRToString

16 Jul 2002

soptest

How MS implements them and why they do not want you to see the source code of those functions.

Mouse Gesture Add-in for MS DevStudio 6

8 Nov 2004

JaeWook Choi

An article on Mouse Gesture add-in for MS DevStudio 6.

The Ultimate Toolbox Application Skins

24 Aug 2007

The Ultimate Toolbox

The Ultimate Toolbox supports Office XP, Office 2003, and Classic application skins

Asynchronous TCP Part 1

14 Sep 2018

bkelly13

Goal: Describe how asynchronous or non-blocking TCP code works

WndImage Control

6 May 2002

peterchen

An easy-to-use control to display bitmaps (stretch, scale, tile)

Nullsoft Winamp Plug-in With Bitmapped UI, Docking and Restrictive Resizing

9 Jun 2000

James Spibey

An article discussing a Plug-in for Nullsoft Winamp which looks and behaves like the Winamp UI.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 6

8 May 2005

Brian C Hart

We build our new server and install it on the server machine.

Programmatically scrolling WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++

22 Aug 2001

Valters Vingolds

Article describes how to obtain IHTML interfaces to prrogrammatically scroll WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++.

24 Feb 2002

Kirill Panov

CDataGrid which was derived from CGridCtrl and used ADO for access to database.

Numeric Edit Control

2 Mar 2004

gUrM33T

How to subclass an edit control in MFC so that it accepts numeric values only

CRangeSlider - a Ctrl for Selecting a Range or Interval

8 Apr 2002

Jens Scheidtmann

Have you ever searched for a nice way to select a subrange from an interval? This may be the solution for you.

Saving Drawing Contexts

27 Mar 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

GDI objects selected in a DC can't be deleted - even when you call DeleteObject. This handy class makes these potential leaks a thing of the past.

WindowSnapshot - System Tray Utility To Surgically Capture Bitmaps of Windows/Controls On The Screen

13 Jan 2002

Lim Bio Liong

A System Tray Utility to precisely capture screenshots of Windows and Controls anywhere on the screen.

Customizable Window Layouts

28 Jul 2008

Roland Trainor

A class to facilitate user defined dialog and window control layouts.

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

25 Feb 2018

Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001

Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Visual Component Framework

25 Oct 2000

Jim Crafton

An Article describing working with the Visual Component Framework

CCreditsCtrl - An advanced About Box

7 Jan 2001

Marc Richarme

Yet another fully stacked control for displaying scrolling credits...

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

18 Jul 2003

Ernest Laurentin

Introduction to Microsoft Script Hosting and Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

Multi language on-screen keyboard using Windows keyboard DLLs

18 Dec 2012

Lars [Large] Werner

Windows has built inn support for a lot of keyboard languages, this class makes it possible to extract that info in an easy manner and present it to screen.

Generic Picker Dropdown Control

12 Dec 2008

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

A flexible easily overridable combo-box-alike control for choosing from a 2D array of options

Using the Shell to Receive Notification of Removable Media Being Inserted or Removed

20 Nov 2002

Obliterator

Uses the poorly documented SHChangeNotifyRegister function to receive notification upon shell events

Selection Rectangle: An Implementation in "Explorer style" :)

28 Jan 2010

Eugen Podsypalnikov

A semi-transparent selection rectangle

Column based selection in rich edit control.

22 May 2012

Mahfuzur Rahman.

Column based selection in rich edit control.

CStatic-derived histogram control

9 Jan 2000

Alexander Fedorov

A simple histogram control for displaying data

Using Skins Without MFC

17 Jul 2001

John Roark

A Simple Skinning Library

Offline Browser using WinInet, URL Moniker and MSHTML APIs

22 Mar 2005

Muhammad Sheraz Siddiqi

This article describes how to make an offline browser using Visual C++/Win32 APIs.

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects

19 Dec 2016

Petrov Vladimir

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects Templates ready to use

Web Search Engine

14 Jan 2022

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Design and implementation of a Web Search Engine using Text Mining techniques

UI Control Data Spy

1 Oct 2009

Nishad S

A tool for capturing data from controls like TreeCtrl, ListCtrl, ComboBox, ListBox, etc.

Hosting .exe Applications into a Dialog

9 May 2007

Sherin Iranimose

An article on launching and embeding .exe applications into a dialog-based application

The CODBCDynamic class

14 Mar 2000

Tom Archer

A class to dynamically read data from any ODBC data source

A set of Network Management Classes

21 Jan 2002

Carlos Antollini

A set of classes that make it easy to work with Network Management.

Windows Explorer wildcard selection shell extension

28 Sep 2002

Matthijs Hollemans

A shell extension to allow you to select files based on a wildcard search

Single Instance Application

31 Oct 2002

Justin Hallet

An example approach to solving the single instance application problem with command line argument passing.

Folder Tab Control for Windows MFC (like MS Excel)

5 Oct 2003

Lynn McGuire

Folder Tab control for Windows MFC (like MS Excel).

Ask for, and receive, change notifications from a printer

20 Apr 2010

David Crow

This article is a brief discussion on how to use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification

Your Own Quadrics in OpenGL MFC

20 Nov 2017

Petrov Vladimir

The alternative Quadrics in OpenGL MFC for your Own design and Universal Polyhedron Procedure.

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in 3D

11 Mar 2018

Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in 3D codes demo implementation

27 Dec 1999

Jason Troitsky

A CStatic class that gently fades text into view

Process Microsoft® Outlook® Messages Automatically (via App. or a NT Service).

28 Apr 2001

Dan Madden

An article showing you how to process (Outlook®) E-mail messages automatically by using an MFC dialog or NT service.

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

11 Aug 2000

Brian C Hart

We look at connection points and set up the server's end of one. We'll also finish implementing our SayHello() method.

A Programming Model to Use a Thread Pool

30 Sep 2000

Sherwood Hu

A class to manage the thread pool

Command routing beyond a split frame

16 Jul 2002

Bartosz Bien

Command routing and UI updates for inactive views in a split frame.

MFC Resources Fallback

11 Jul 2007

Giuseppe Marazzi

A small tip for implementing a fallback resources process with MFC that's useful for localization

The Ultimate Grid FAQ

5 Oct 2007

The Ultimate Toolbox

A selection of frequently asked questions submitted by users of the Ultimate Grid

13 Jul 2009

Hou Tianze

A CStatic derived class that wraps the cool FX effect by dswigger.

Ownerdraw listctrl with transparent background and customized items image on WinCE

5 Jan 2012

Pansion_chen

Ownerdraw listctrl with transparent background and custermized items image on WinCE.

HTML Parser C++ (Demo Project)

4 Oct 2013

dchris_med

This is a sample project for "HTML Reader C++ Class Library"

Detecting Active Language

21 Sep 2017

Michael Haephrati

How to detect the currently used language regardless of the active application

Switch Between Documents

4 Jan 2020

_Flaviu

Switching between open documents in multi-document interface application

CODBCAccess: a CDatabase and CRecordset Wrapper

12 Mar 2003

Alexander Wiseman

A class to wrap the use of CDatabase and CRecordset into one object to communicate with databases

A custom-drawn TreeList Control

17 Mar 2000

Gerolf Reinwardt

A custom-drawn tree-list hybrid, with explanations on how the control was developed.

30 Sep 2002

HAMZADAYI

Custom CRulerWnd control

CrashRptEx - An Extension to the CrashRpt Crash Reporting System

23 May 2018

Andreas Schoenle

How to use CrashRptEx, to avoid some of the pitfalls of crash reporting in MFC apps or if you want the ability to continue your application after a crash

A Print Enabled Tree View

17 Jan 2000

Koay Kah Hoe

Code to add printing capabilities to a Tree View.

How to display the Pick Icon Dialog

12 Jan 2000

Henk Devos

Explains how to display the windows 'Pick Icon' dialog

Adding Hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

3 Jun 2000

Chris Maunder, Fred Ackers

A new class that adds hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

Exposing tabular data from your COM object - Part 2

28 Jul 2000

Len Holgate

The ATL OLE DB Provider templates appear to rely on the fact that your data is kept in a simple array, but that's not really the case at all!

Menu Bitmaps from Minimal Source Code

1 Feb 2002

Warren Gardner

Add bitmaps to your menus easily and with very little source code.

An Oracle OCI Data Source Class for Ultimate Grid, Part 2 - Building the OCI Data Source Class

22 May 2014

djc2032

A three-part series demonstrating how to develop an Oracle Call Interface (OCI) custom data source for Ultimate Grid

Communicating With a Direct2D Graphics Thread

27 Jun 2016

Ben Aldhouse

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Direct2D.

Creating a Desktop Application for Converting Audio Files from Each Other

16 Aug 2020

Michael Haephrati

Desktop application that can be used to convert from and to various audio formats, such as .mp3, .m4a and .wav

ShareIT

31 Oct 2001

Farooque Khan

Demonstrates usage of NetShare APIs.

26 Nov 2001

Davide Calabro

A collection of usefull icons contained into a DLL

Owner-Draw Control Example: A Color Table Generator

4 Feb 2002

Joseph M. Newcomer

A control for generating colour gradients

HyperEdit Control

9 Oct 2008

Paul Vickery

CEdit-derived Hyperlink control, so user can edit hyperlinks

SppMk - a unit testing and GNU make support add-in for Visual Studio 6.0

11 Jul 2002

Pavel Kobyakov

A DevStudio add-in described provides two interesting IDE integration features: adding a new tab to VC WorkspaceView window and running an arbitrary process under IDE with output sent to "Build" tab of VC Output window.

Texture Mapping in OpenGL using Class CImage

5 Aug 2016

Petrov Vladimir

Texture Mapping in OpenGL from any Image File in any format using Class CImage(just call the File Name).

An MFC COM Wrapper Code Generator Using COleDispatchDriver

19 Jun 2022

Ben Hanson

IDispatch C++ Code Generation Done Right

A pager control wrapper class

15 Dec 1999

Kirk Stowell

This article presents a wrapper class for the pager control

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 4

11 Aug 2000

Brian C Hart

Here we add a method to our DCOM-remoted object, and start on implementing its functionality.

Simple RTF based Help Dialog

3 Oct 2001

Antoine Megens

Yet Another Simple Help Dialog

Text ScrollBar Control

17 Jan 2012

mengxz

CScrollBarEx is a simple MFC control derived from CWnd, it can display scrollbar max, min, and current value

Threads and Ants

27 Dec 2015

Sotirios Diamantis

You have a problem with your app, and limited computer resources; this code will help you find the problem, by giving you the sequence of function calls that caused it.

Database info tool

26 Oct 2000

Massimo Colurcio

Explore the structure of tables (and views)

The CAccessReports class

14 Mar 2000

Tom Archer

A class for Printing and Viewing MS Access Reports

MS Soap Toolkit 2.0 - Oi! Where's My Rope Gone

6 Feb 2001

Nic Oughton

Using the high level API to send and receive SOAP messages in MFC

An OLE-DB DLL that you can use in ANSI-C

3 Jul 2002

roboo

An OLE-DB DLL that you can use in ANSI-C

Integrating Undo/Redo support with MFC Grid

5 Mar 2002

Phil J Pearson

Shows how to integrate simple and easy Undo/Redo (by Keith Rule) into an application using the MFC Grid control (by Chris Maunder).

Any Day of the Week Using the Doomsday Rule

27 Jun 2002

Paul J. Weiss

C++ implementation of the Doomsday Rule to determine the weekday

JesTracePaster - Tool to Add Method-entry Logs in Source Files

11 Mar 2009

Jellow TK

This simple tool will add method-entry logs in source files.

Send and Receive Message through WebView2 to/from Your Website

1 Mar 2021

Ayush Swiss

Establish the communication between WebView2 and JavaScript by which you can send and receive the message via WebView2

Multiple MRU lists

28 Dec 1999

Jorge Lodos

This article describes how to maintain the separate MRU list for each document type that is needed in some applications.

"Select Computer" Dialog

16 Apr 2001

Igor Sukhov

The ATL and MFC versions of the class that implements a dialog for selecting users(computers) within the Windows Network.

CServerMailslot & CClientMailslot

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

Freeware MFC wrapper classes for Win32 Mailslots.

ITEMIDLIST management library

3 May 2000

Vasili Burdo

The library that helps to manage Shell ITEMIDLISTS

Discover ISAPI. Working with GET-POST Data

15 Jul 2002

Adrian Bacaianu

That article present a way to retrieve the GET-POST data from a form into an ISAPI extension.

Internet Explorer Skin Manager

10 Jun 2002

Manish Hatwalne

An article explaining how to create a utility to manage Internet Explorer skin

Thread pool class Bug Fixed

24 Aug 2002

Simon.W

Fixed a bug about Thread pool class submited by Sherwood Hu

IG MultiLanguage Toolkit

9 Sep 2002

Truong Pham Dang Khoa

A multilanguage control.

Menu, tabs, toolbars, scrollbars, hotkeys, frames resizing, and the ON_COMMAND_RANGE handler for classes derived from CListCtrl on CFormView dialogs

12 Jul 2009

Emery Emerald

A demonstration of using a general-purpose MDI interface in MFC table forms.

Hello, I Am Ready to Communicate!

20 Jun 2012

ThatsAlok

CWinThread with TWO-Way communication using window message

multi-threading

Ved Startup Manager

3 Feb 2017

Satish Jagtap

This article is written in VC++ as utility to manage startup applications of Windows.

An AutoRepeat Button Class

12 Apr 2017

PJ Arends

This is an alternative for "An AutoRepeat Button Class"

Your Own AVI Shop

2 Apr 2019

Petrov Vladimir

Build up our own AVI editing application and explore some fun techniques using simple code additions

Sizers: An Extendable Layout Management Library

16 Jan 2000

William E. Kempf

An article on extendable layout management classes.

Exposing tabular data from your COM object - Part 3

28 Jul 2000

Len Holgate

Adding bookmark functionality is relatively easy and it enables our ADO recordset to be used with a greater number of data bound controls.

An email collection program

11 Aug 2001

Scott Wenger

This is a small program that can extract email addresses from files that are not necessarily text files.

How to use Crypto API in your ASP projects.

28 Aug 2001

Adrian Bacaianu

This article shows how to make one ATL COM component with crypt/decrypt functions and how to use it in ASP programs. It shows also how to register a component in MTS.

Sonork VB Engine

7 Nov 2001

Migs

VB engine for the Sonork Instant Messenger

A replacement for MaskBlt

1 May 2002

James Lee

Now you can use MaskBlt on Windows 9X

WM_KILLFOCUS doesn't appear in PreTranslateMessage

18 Sep 2001

Braulio Dez

How to detect when the control looses its focus - the easy way.

11 Jun 2002

Paul Vickery

Utility to make selected windows remain on-top of others

Modifying the owner of an NT security descriptor

15 Oct 2002

Andreas Saurwein

Helper class to set the owner of an NT security descriptor

Change Notification for Dependency Properties

14 Apr 2010

Derek Lakin

Change notification for dependency properties

Patch my Arabic Locale on Windows Mobile

6 May 2012

emranallan

Add your local inside windows local to be supported for unicode

Remote windows mobile Device Using Winsock

18 May 2012

emranallan

Server Application to remote your mobile device through wireless/wire connection not based on RAPI

Owner Draw List Control with Design Pattern (Strategy)

1 Jun 2018

YangManWoo

This article describes how to create custom controls using strategy patterns.

Creating Static-linked Executables using VC++ Standard Edition

15 May 2001

ljp

VC++ Standard Edition only has support for dynamically linked exes. This article shows you how to by-pass this restriction.

A Sizing/Moving Widget

1 Feb 2000

Andrew JM Hall

A class that provides the ability to move and size controls at run-time

Outlook inbox checker

17 Apr 2001

Xavier Dusart

Sample code on how to use tray icons and check Exchange mailbox.

Find in CWebBrowser Control

10 Aug 2000

jerry0davis

How to display the "Find" window in a CWebBrowser control.

COM: IEnumXXXX to STL-style iterator wrapper class

24 Feb 2000

Len Holgate

A simplified method to enumerate a collection of objects.

DDXFile v1.11 - DDX Filename Selection

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

A freeware DDX routine for selecting a filename

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

A freeware MFC class to support access to CDDB servers.

Sending mail using the Microsoft Windows CE Mail API

6 Jun 2002

Ray Kinsella

How to use the Microsoft Mail API to insert messages into the Window CE Outbox.

31 Mar 2001

Tili

This class creates from 1-9 segments of a single file which can be then desgmented.Useful for moving larger file on floppies.

JScript Querystringer

29 Jan 2002

SimonS

Here's some simple JScript that returns the value part of a name-value querystring pair from inside an HTML page.

SeQureLayerProxy

7 May 2002

Alboaie Sînicã

Adding more privacy to users of existing messengers (yahoo only at this stage)

Office 2000 style colour picker By Shailesh Litake

13 May 2002

shailesh litake

office style control

An ActiveX Control for Poker games

14 Jul 2002

Mingming Lu

With this control, you can easily build up your own Poker games.

ASCII Animation (Just for Fun)

20 May 2002

Jason Henderson

Draw and animate ASCII characters to a window using this COM object.

A border for the Frame window

17 Jul 2002

Dave Matrix

How to draw/redraw a rectangle along the window rect, when the window is activated or deactivated.

Build localized apps as separate executables

26 Jul 2002

Petr Stejskal

How to build a separate executable for each language version.

How to use IDirectoryObject

13 Jun 2002

Wictor Wilén

How to use the IDirectoryObject interface instead of using the IADs(IDispatch) objects

An Oracle OCI Data Source Class for Ultimate Grid, Part 1 - Building the Ultimate Grid into an External DLL

22 May 2014

djc2032

A three-part series demonstrating how to develop an Oracle Call Interface (OCI) custom data source for Ultimate Grid

CListCtrl that can save and restore column layout

1 Apr 2009

Rolf Kristensen

An example of how to implement persistence of column widths and positions.

Using Windows CE CommandBands in an MFC based application

1 Feb 2000

Bruce Hearder

An introduction to using CommandBars in CE.

Serialization of COM objects using MFC

17 Jan 2000

Pierre Chalamet

A neat way to use MFCs built in serialization to store COM objects

Making ATL OLE DB Provider templates support updating of data - Part 2

20 Feb 2000

Len Holgate

The ATL OLE DB Provider templates only seem to support read-only rowsets and making them support updating of data isn't as easy as you'd expect!

CPJRegistry 2.0

30 Nov 2001

Peter M. Jones

Registry access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER

DynData v1.0 - Win95/98 Performance Counters

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

A collection of freeware MFC classes to encapsulate the Windows 95/98 performance counters.

Use Regular Expression in Your C++ Program

25 Jan 2001

Sherwood Hu

How to use the Microsoft regular expression object in your C++ program

Color Dialog Control Set

16 Apr 2002

Alex Kwok

Three controls let you create your own colro dialog

Discover ISAPI. Working with Cookies.

15 Jul 2002

Adrian Bacaianu

This article presents a way to send cookies to client browser from an ISAPI extension.

A SOAP based COM+ component Stress Tool

30 Jul 2002

davyuan

This tool parses a SOAP request and calls the COM+ component to stress test it.

Error Reporter - Enables Back-2-Base Error Reporting

25 Sep 2002

voodoopriestess

Allows users to send bug reports to manufacturers without having to manually create bug reports. Requires only four lines of code to be added to your application and works with all versions of Microsoft Windows. No MFC.

CDFValue - Fractional/Decimal conversion class

22 Nov 2002

Old Timer

A class used to manipulate and convert decimal and fractional data.

Xtreme Toolkit Professional Edition

4 Aug 2003

Kirk Stowell

Xtreme Toolkit Professional Edition gives your application a rock solid presentation that includes Office 2003 style themes, Office style menu and toolbar customization, Visual Studio .NET style tear off tabs and auto hide panes.

product-showcase

IMSL® C# with Excel and VSTO: An Introduction and Walkthrough

7 Jan 2008

Visual Numerics, Inc.

This document focuses on the combination of VSTO 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition.

product-showcase

The Ultimate Grid Home Page

14 Sep 2013

The Ultimate Toolbox, metalogicsw.com

The Ultimate Grid is now Open Source

UMLEditor - revisiting the vector editor

5 Jul 2006

Johan Rosengren

An UML editor with code-generation capabilities derived from CDiagramEditor.

Target Eye Revealed: Part 1 - Target Eye's Unique AutoUpdate Mechanism

12 Jun 2014

Michael Haephrati

How Target Eye's Auto updating mechanism allows a silent update of an application from identifying newer versions, downloading them and running them instead of the old one

Calendar Plug-in for .dan.g.'s ToDoList - In 10 Easy Steps™

10 Jun 2008

[d3m0n]

A Calendar UI extension component for the ToDoList, giving you a timeline view of your tasks

CXml - A Wrapping Class for MSXML 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0

10 Jan 2013

Jerry.Wang

This wrapping class will try to use the latest version of MSXML in the machine, and it is easy because of using auto_ptr.

All About MFC Serialization

9 Jan 2019

steveb

Describes all aspects of MFC serialization mechanism

Professional User Interface Suite

13 Jan 2004

Sergiy Lavrynenko of Foss Software, Inc.

MFC extension library enabling software to be provided with a professional UI

Shrinking SQL Server Transaction Logs with SQL-DMO

21 Apr 2004

Armen Hakobyan

Using SQL-DMO to shrink SQL Server transaction logs.

Setting the width of the dropdown list

17 May 2000

Chris Maunder

A simple tutorial explaining how to set the width of a combo dropdown list so that all items are fully visible

Introducing Comet

31 Dec 2003

Michael Geddes

How Comet can help you create and use COM servers in 'real' C++, extending or replacing ATL.

A Realtime Logfile Viewer

24 Feb 2004

Rob Manderson

Part two of the logging service - the viewer

The Ultimate TCP/IP Home Page

25 Aug 2007

The Ultimate Toolbox

Ultimate TCP-IP is now Open Source

An Image Processing Application in C++

25 Jun 2014

Darryl Bryk

Code is described for a multi-document interface (MDI) image processing application utilizing the CImage class in C++

XGroupBox - an MFC groupbox control to display text and icon

2 Sep 2008

Hans Dietrich

XGroupBox is an MFC control that displays a flicker-free groupbox with text and/or icon. You can use this to display either a standard groupbox or a header-only groupbox.

MS Outlook style miniature calendar control

28 Jan 2002

Matt Gullett

A custom CWnd derived control which simulates the functionality of the MS Outlook mini calendar control.

CFileVersionInfo - Retrieving a File's full Version Information Resource

18 Jun 2002

Sven Wiegand

A class that enables you to easily retrieve a file's version information.

Embedding a Chromium Browser in an MFC Application

27 Nov 2019

Marius Bancila

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) v3 to embed a Chromium browser in an MFC application

Chromium-embedded

Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++ 5.0/6.0/.NET

10 Jan 2005

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

An application/add-in to organise and renumber resource symbol IDs

Attaching and Detaching Objects

16 May 2000

Joseph M. Newcomer

Attaching and detaching MFC objects to and from Windows objects.

COddButton

26 Oct 2002

Paolo Messina, George

How to make owner-draw buttons handle default state

CPJAImage - Yet another image drawing class

26 Aug 2003

PJ Arends

A class that draws an image with various options - transparently, disabled or grayscale, centered on or stretched to fit a given rectangle.

Simple and Easy Undo/Redo

30 Jan 2000

Keith Rule

Easily add Undo/Redo to your CDocument/CView based applciation.

CTreePropSheetEx – an extended version of CTreePropSheet

7 Apr 2005

Yves Tkaczyk

CTreePropSheetEx is an extension of CTreePropSheet offering new features such as resizing, skipping empty pages, and new property frames such as Office 2003 option sheet.

XSuperTooltip - Office 2007 Super Tooltip class

31 Jul 2006

Hans Dietrich

XSuperTooltip implements class for displaying super tooltips, which were introduced in Office 2007. The demo download includes super tooltip code generator, that makes it easy to add super tooltips to your application.

CKeystrokeEngine

21 Jun 2004

Mustafa Demirhan

A set of classes used to send keystrokes to a selected window

List ComboBox Control

23 Sep 2016

_Flaviu

A ListCtrl ComboBox control

Balloon Help as a non-modal replacement for MessageBox()

7 Aug 2002

Shog⁹

Although sometimes useful, message boxes used to display information are often just annoying. This article describes a non-modal replacement.

Digital Display CStatic control

9 Nov 2002

Nic Wilson

An article on the Digital Display Control

CWnd Helper Class

6 Dec 2002

Alvaro Mendez

Class with static functions and nested classes to make working with CWnd-derived objects easier

15 Apr 2003

tbw

Formula-editor for editing and exporting mathematical content

Using Semaphores: Multithreaded Producer/Consumer

14 Jun 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

An introduction to using Semaphores

Simple Snap-to-Grid cursor to your graphics application

26 Oct 2002

Jim Hawkins

Simple Class to add Snap-to-Grid capability to a Windows drawing program.

CSingleInstance - Single Instance Apps

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

An MFC class to implement single instance apps.

Fast SIMD Prototyping

30 Oct 2016

Shao Voon Wong

Prototype SIMD vectorized code effortlessly.

Advanced customization of WebBrowser Control in Dialog based app.

19 Aug 2003

Greg Ellis

Shows how to customize the Microsoft WebBrowser control in a dialog based app to allow custom context menus, message boxes, windows, modal dialogs and C++ function calls from JavaScript to your application using window.external.

15 Jun 2004

Paolo Messina

A set of classes to ease the development of resizable windows with MFC

Discover WEB. HTTP GET-POST Utility

25 Jun 2002

Adrian Bacaianu

This article presents a utility that lets you retrieve raw information from web servers using HTTP's GET and POST commands.

Style Toolkit - Use advanced graphics techniques to create a custom user interface

11 Aug 2008

Darren Sessions

The Style Toolkit allows you to modernize the look of your programs using gradients, transparency, PNG images, and more.

Crystal Edit - syntax coloring text editor

30 Jan 2000

Andrei Stcherbatchenko

A set of classes that provide an expandable framework for the syntax coloring text editor.

Using .NET Classes/Modules from Native C++

13 Sep 2009

Johann Anhofer

The goal of this article is to describe a more or less generic way to access .NET managed objects from a native C++ application.

CCylinderProgressControlST v1.0

1 Jul 2003

Davide Calabro

A GDI+ cylinder progress control

SolidGraph CAD System

12 Sep 2006

Geometros

A SolidGraph CAD system source code.

CGradient and CGradientCtrl

29 Jan 2003

Joel Holdsworth

A pair of classes for rendering and editing colourful washes

AdvComboBox - Version 2.1

29 Sep 2010

Mathias Tunared

A Combobox in which the user can resize the drop window. Can be standard style or flat style.

CTreeFileCtrl & CSortedArray v1.06

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

Implements a tree control similar to the left hand side of Windows Explorer.

Using the WebBrowser control, simplified

13 Feb 2012

Gary R. Wheeler

The SimpleBrowser class makes using the WebBrowser control easier in your MFC applications.

Creating a Self Extracting Executable

20 Aug 2002

James Spibey

A class that allows you to create self extracting executables for use in distribution or setup programs

A MFC/GDI+ LCD Control

7 Sep 2011

Frédéric Pailloux

Nice 7/16/Matric Segment LCD Control derived from CStatic and using GDI+ library

Surviving the Release Version

16 Jul 2001

Joseph M. Newcomer

Learn about the issues and differences between Debug and Release builds.

SkinControls 1.1 - A journey in automating the skinning of Windows controls

11 Oct 2003

.dan.g.

A self-contained, user-extensible, application-wide skinning architecture for Windows controls.

An LED Style display control and bar control

17 Jan 2000

Jason Troitsky

A control to display time, floating point numbers or integers using an LED digital-style display

AGM::LibReflection: A reflection library for C++.

1 Nov 2004

Achilleas Margaritis

Description of the library AGM::LibReflection.

Applying Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

13 Sep 2013

geoyar

Applying Ant Colony Optimization algorithms to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem.

artificial-intelligence

A service to manage and create logfiles

6 Jan 2004

Rob Manderson

A service, and client code, to manage and create logfiles

XCrashReport : Exception Handling and Crash Reporting - Part 1

19 Oct 2003

Hans Dietrich

Add basic exception handling and crash reporting to your application

Message Management

16 May 2000

Joseph M. Newcomer

Learn effective methods for managing your user-defined messages.

TabCtrl - Adjustable Control with Zooming and Scrolling Tabs

25 Mar 2021

Baradzenka Aleh

In this article, you will learn about an adjustable control that has zooming and scrolling tabs, dragging with the mouse, custom drawing and much more.

Hosting of MFC MDI Applications from Within WinForms and WPF Applications

30 May 2022

Alexey Shalnov

Building old MFC app in .NET app, replacing MFC MDI Framework with modern WinForms or WPF Framework and integrating MFC Views and Dialogs in it

4350% Performance Improvement with the StringBuilder for C++!

10 Sep 2013

Pablo Aliskevicius

Memory reallocation generated by string concatenations can create performance bottlenecks. .NET has System.Text.StringBuilder, JavaScript has Array.join, and we have string::reserve.

CNTService v1.06 - NT Service Framework

3 Mar 2000

PJ Naughter

A class framework for developing NT services in MFC.

How to verify the bar state info

20 Jan 2000

Cristi Posea

Verify the bar state info in the application profile before calling LoadBarState()

XHtmlTree - Tree control with support for HTML, XML, Smart Checkboxes, and Drag & Drop

1 Jan 2008

Hans Dietrich

XHtmlTree is an MFC control based on CTreeCtrl, with support for HTML text, web links, APP: links, XML load/save, Smart Checkboxes, and Drag & Drop.

11 Jul 2003

Kochise

A bitmapped progress bar in a status bar with optional completion status message

K3DSurf: Math for fun

11 Dec 2006

virtualmeet

K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations.

Delay MessageBox with auto-close option

13 Aug 2002

Shog⁹, Nish Nishant

This message box delays its dismissal by disabling the OK button for a delay interval. It also has an optional auto-close feature. There are two versions, one uses a WH_CBT hook and some basic window tricks like sub-classing to achieve its goal. The other one is more MFC-ied.

Dynamic child window positioning

22 Feb 2000

Hans Bühler

Describes a method to implement resizable child windows.

Tabbed View Interface in an MFC Doc View Application

22 Jul 2010

Mukit, Ataul

Create a tabbed view interface in an MFC based Doc View application.

Creating draggable windows - SDI and dialogs

12 Jul 2002

Nish Nishant

Shows how you can create windows that can be dragged around, not just through the title bar, but anywhere within the window body

The Ultimate Toolbox Home Page

25 Aug 2007

The Ultimate Toolbox

The Ultimate Toolbox is now Open Source

Neural Network for Recognition of Handwritten Digits

5 Dec 2006

Mike O'Neill

A convolutional neural network achieves 99.26% accuracy on a modified NIST database of hand-written digits.

KeePass Password Safe

13 Jan 2020

Dominik Reichl

KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

Achieving PostScript and Wmf outputs for OpenGL

9 Jun 2003

Pierre Alliez

This article explains how to generate resolution independent versions of 3D meshes rendered by OpenGL/MFC programs, i.e. how to export the rendering results to vectorial formats such as encapsulated postscript (EPS) and Windows enhanced metafile (EMF) formats. The main goal consists of being able to

Lookup and Display Win32/COM Error Strings With One Line of Code

31 Dec 2005

Brian C Hart

Use compiler COM support (even in non-COM applications) to get a Win32 error code or HRESULT's message in one line of code.

CPPToolTip v2.1

4 Mar 2005

Eugene Pustovoyt

A class that allows you to display your data for a control as tooltip

Adding a status bar to an MFC dialog

16 May 2002

Nish Nishant

Shows how you can have status bars in your dialog based apps