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CMFCEditBrowseCtrl Without Flickering

by hofingerandi

Workaround for a bug in the CMFCEditBrowseCtrl that causes heavy flickering (starting with Windows 7)

.NET 3.5 under Windows 10: If Everything Else Fails During the Feature Install

by Marco Bertschi

Starting with Windows 8, .NET 3.5 comes more or less tightly coupled to the OS, as a Windows Feature.

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CMFCEditBrowseCtrl Without Flickering

by hofingerandi

Workaround for a bug in the CMFCEditBrowseCtrl that causes heavy flickering (starting with Windows 7)

.NET 3.5 under Windows 10: If Everything Else Fails During the Feature Install

by Marco Bertschi

Starting with Windows 8, .NET 3.5 comes more or less tightly coupled to the OS, as a Windows Feature.

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CMFCEditBrowseCtrl Without Flickering

15 Apr 2018 by hofingerandi

Workaround for a bug in the CMFCEditBrowseCtrl that causes heavy flickering (starting with Windows 7)

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Should an ASSERT_VALID stop in the debugger ?

1 Aug 2012 by nv3

This type of crash typically occurs when a frame window or view is being deleted via two separate code paths. For one, these windows normally have a delete this;in their OnNcDestroy function and de-allocate their object automatically. If it is also accidentally deleted by the...

Should an ASSERT_VALID stop in the debugger ?

1 Aug 2012 by Albert Holguin

Quote:Should an ASSERT_VALID stop in the debugger ? Short answer, yes.It won't tell you directly what led to the assertion, but you should be able to look at the call stack and trace back to see what part of your code led to the assertion being triggered.

MFC Feature pack Porting issue ,stack overflow on CoCreateInstanceEx

7 Oct 2012 by bitsmax

Hello ,I am trying to update my exisiting application thru MFC feature pack .I have done all prerequisite for that.like Change the base classes (CMDIFrameWnd to CMDIFrameWndEx etc.)from and other initialization .But i am getting stack overflow while doing CoCreateInstanceEx .....

MFC Feature pack porting to exiting application

8 Oct 2012 by bitsmax

Hello all,i have gone many article available on web, and found the way to port existing application on MFC feature pack. though i have followed all the rules still not able to launch my application .Is some successfully ported his existing app to MFC feature pack?Please share the...

MFC Feature pack porting to exiting application

4 Nov 2012 by Francesco Aruta

One thing (not so obvious) to check is that your application is UNICODE: the feature pack works only with UNICODE.

Change to toolbar UI code is not reflected in actual program execution

28 Nov 2012 by Maximilien

(Not really an urgent problem to fix).I'm using a CMFToolbar with some custom buttons in them (edit box).In the handler of AFX_WM_RESETTOOLBAR, I create and replace the toolbar button with a CMFCToolBarEditBoxButton .ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE(AFX_WM_RESETTOOLBAR,...

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Change to toolbar UI code is not reflected in actual program execution

28 Nov 2012 by Eugen Podsypalnikov

Just construct your own derivation with reimplemented compare-function:class CMyEditButton : public CMFCToolBarEditBoxButton{ DECLARE_SERIAL(CMyEditButton)//..public://.. virtual BOOL CompareWith(const CMFCToolBarButton& other) const { return...

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CMFCRibbonBar using CFrameWnd (not CFrameWndEx )

6 Feb 2014 by mochenoo

Dear friends,I'm developing a plugin for an MFC based software using it's C++ SDK.I want to add Ribbon to the software and I'm sure that it is possible.So I have started by something like that:BOOL CMyPlugin::InitInstance(){ CWinAppEx::InitInstance(); ...

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How do I ask question in a survey with answer option more than 2, 000

27 Apr 2016 by AgusPrianto111

Dear everyone, I am currently designing a survey to be used for market research. I will need to see from which school is the respondent (our target respondent is student) comes from. the way we will do it is, by providing them the list of school that we know in one province (which is more than...

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MFC feature pack: 2 dynamic menu buttons inside the toolbar problem

9 Jun 2016 by SergejNikitin

Hello colleagues,Seems strange, but after so many years, I'm trying to use MFC Feature Pack for my old application.I have the following problem which makes me a bit crazy:I have a toolbar, inside the toolbar I have 2 menu-buttons with drop-down style.Menu in each button is built...

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MFC feature pack: 2 dynamic menu buttons inside the toolbar problem

9 Jun 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

See WM_MENUCOMMAND message (Windows)[^].

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.NET 3.5 under Windows 10: If Everything Else Fails During the Feature Install

17 May 2017 by Marco Bertschi

Starting with Windows 8, .NET 3.5 comes more or less tightly coupled to the OS, as a Windows Feature.

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Should an ASSERT_VALID stop in the debugger ?

1 Aug 2012 by Maximilien

Should an ASSERT_VALID stop in the debugger ? I'm trying to trace a crash when our application closes.It crashes somewhere in CFrameWnd::OnClose (in a ::DestroyWindow).In the message log there is a ASSERT_VALID that is logged; but the debugger does NOT stop on the...