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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

Latest Articles

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

You can use IntelliPort to transfer large files from a computer onto your portable computer using a serial port rather than going through the process of setting up your portable computer on a network.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

Task Manager shows you the programs, processes, and services that are currently running on your computer. You can use Task Manager to monitor your computer’s performance or to close a program that is not responding.

IntelliLink - An Alternative Windows Version to Online Link Managers

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

A look at the URLDownloadToFile function and architecture of IntelliLink

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 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

23 Oct 2008 by 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 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

10 Mar 2002 by 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 by 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 by Alexey

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

Automated IE SaveAs MHTML

4 Sep 2002 by Stephane Rodriguez.

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

SAPrefs - Netscape-like Preferences Dialog

20 Apr 2002 by C^hris L^osinger

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

MFC List Control with Tooltips, Editing, Colors, Columns hiding, Sorting and lot more abilities.

6 Apr 2020 by Jovibor

Owner-draw list control with tooltips, editing, colors, sorting, hyperlinks, columns hiding and lot more.

Screen Capture to the Clipboard

5 Apr 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

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

50 OpenGL MFC Projects in One

10 May 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

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

Adding New Theme Variations to the MFC Ribbon (CMFCVisualManager)

1 Nov 2017 by peterboulton

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

CSNTPClient - An SNTP Implementation

7 Apr 2000 by PJ Naughter

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

Classes for computational geometry

26 Dec 2001 by Chris Maunder

Some classes and utility functions for general computational geometry

MDISnap

29 Nov 2004 by peterchen

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

CSplitButton with Images

19 May 2021 by Michael Haephrati

How to enhance the MFC CSplitButton control to support images

Using text callbacks in ListView Controls

26 Nov 1999 by 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 by 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 by 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 by Keith Rule

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

Enhanced CListCtrl that accepts and filters dropped files and folders

6 Feb 2000 by Stuart Carter

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

The alxBase classes for work with DBF files

5 Nov 2002 by Alexey

The alxBase classes for work with dbf files.

CFormatDriveDialog - A wrapper class for the undocumented SHFormatDrive API function

27 Aug 2002 by Nish Nishant

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

Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 1 - Code 39

14 Jun 2002 by Neil Van Eps

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

Group Combo Box

19 Nov 2013 by Julijan Sribar

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

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

20 Mar 2009 by SBJ

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

Custom URL Protocol for Invoking Application

6 Mar 2012 by Chandrakantt

Registering a custom URL protocol for invoking an application

Init Threads in MFC and Win32

17 Oct 2021 by Petrov Vladimir

Starting Threads in MFC and Win32 and some handling samples

multi-threading

Magic Formula of the Intersection Point of Two Line Segments

5 Dec 2019 by Petrov Vladimir

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

computational-geometry

WndImage Control

6 May 2002 by peterchen

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

CCeButtonST v1.2

18 Dec 2001 by 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 by 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 by JaeWook Choi

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

The Ultimate Toolbox Application Skins

24 Aug 2007 by The Ultimate Toolbox

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

Asynchronous TCP Part 1

14 Sep 2018 by bkelly13

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

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

9 Jun 2000 by 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 by 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 by Valters Vingolds

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

24 Feb 2002 by Kirill Panov

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

CRangeSlider - a Ctrl for Selecting a Range or Interval

8 Apr 2002 by Jens Scheidtmann

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

Numeric Edit Control

2 Mar 2004 by gUrM33T

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

Saving Drawing Contexts

27 Mar 2001 by 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 by 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 by Roland Trainor

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

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in MFC

25 Feb 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in MFC codes demo implementation

CreateRegionFromFile

10 Dec 2001 by Yuriy Zaporozhets

Very primitive function that creates region from *.bmp files

Visual Component Framework

25 Oct 2000 by Jim Crafton

An Article describing working with the Visual Component Framework

CCreditsCtrl - An advanced About Box

7 Jan 2001 by Marc Richarme

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

Adding Macro Scripting language support to existing MFC Application

18 Jul 2003 by 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 by 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.

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

20 Nov 2002 by Obliterator

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

Generic Picker Dropdown Control

12 Dec 2008 by Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

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

UI Control Data Spy

1 Oct 2009 by Nishad S

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

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

28 Jan 2010 by Eugen Podsypalnikov

A semi-transparent selection rectangle

Column based selection in rich edit control.

22 May 2012 by Mahfuzur Rahman.

Column based selection in rich edit control.

CStatic-derived histogram control

9 Jan 2000 by Alexander Fedorov

A simple histogram control for displaying data

Using Skins Without MFC

17 Jul 2001 by John Roark

A Simple Skinning Library

Offline Browser using WinInet, URL Moniker and MSHTML APIs

22 Mar 2005 by Muhammad Sheraz Siddiqi

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

Hosting .exe Applications into a Dialog

9 May 2007 by Sherin Iranimose

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

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects

19 Dec 2016 by Petrov Vladimir

Joystick Win32 and MFC Projects Templates ready to use

The CODBCDynamic class

14 Mar 2000 by Tom Archer

A class to dynamically read data from any ODBC data source

A set of Network Management Classes

21 Jan 2002 by Carlos Antollini

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

Windows Explorer wildcard selection shell extension

28 Sep 2002 by Matthijs Hollemans

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

Single Instance Application

31 Oct 2002 by 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 by Lynn McGuire

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

Ask for, and receive, change notifications from a printer

20 Apr 2010 by David Crow

This article is a brief discussion on how to use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification

Your Own Quadrics in OpenGL MFC

20 Nov 2017 by Petrov Vladimir

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

Weiler-Atherton Algorithm in 3D

11 Mar 2018 by Petrov Vladimir

Weiler-Atherton algorithm in 3D codes demo implementation

27 Dec 1999 by Jason Troitsky

A CStatic class that gently fades text into view

DCOM D-Mystified: A DCOM Tutorial, Step 5

11 Aug 2000 by 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 by Sherwood Hu

A class to manage the thread pool

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

28 Apr 2001 by Dan Madden

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

CODBCAccess: a CDatabase and CRecordset Wrapper

12 Mar 2003 by Alexander Wiseman

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

Command routing beyond a split frame

16 Jul 2002 by Bartosz Bien

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

MFC Resources Fallback

11 Jul 2007 by 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 by The Ultimate Toolbox

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

13 Jul 2009 by 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 by Pansion_chen

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

HTML Parser C++ (Demo Project)

4 Oct 2013 by dchris_med

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

Detecting Active Language

21 Sep 2017 by Michael Haephrati

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

Switch Between Documents

4 Jan 2020 by _Flaviu

Switching between open documents in multi-document interface application

A Print Enabled Tree View

17 Jan 2000 by Koay Kah Hoe

Code to add printing capabilities to a Tree View.

A custom-drawn TreeList Control

17 Mar 2000 by Gerolf Reinwardt

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

30 Sep 2002 by HAMZADAYI

Custom CRulerWnd control

CrashRptEx - An Extension to the CrashRpt Crash Reporting System

23 May 2018 by 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

Consuming Your C# Library in MFC/C++ Project

11 Apr 2023 by Shao Voon Wong

Consuming Your C# Library in MFC/C++ Project via C++/CLI

How to display the Pick Icon Dialog

12 Jan 2000 by Henk Devos

Explains how to display the windows 'Pick Icon' dialog

Exposing tabular data from your COM object - Part 2

28 Jul 2000 by 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!

Adding Hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

3 Jun 2000 by Chris Maunder, Fred Ackers

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

ShareIT

31 Oct 2001 by Farooque Khan

Demonstrates usage of NetShare APIs.

Menu Bitmaps from Minimal Source Code

1 Feb 2002 by 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 by 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 by 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 by Michael Haephrati

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

An MFC COM Wrapper Code Generator Using COleDispatchDriver

19 Jun 2022 by Ben Hanson

IDispatch C++ Code Generation Done Right

26 Nov 2001 by Davide Calabro

A collection of usefull icons contained into a DLL

Owner-Draw Control Example: A Color Table Generator

4 Feb 2002 by Joseph M. Newcomer

A control for generating colour gradients

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

11 Jul 2002 by 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.

HyperEdit Control

9 Oct 2008 by Paul Vickery

CEdit-derived Hyperlink control, so user can edit hyperlinks

Texture Mapping in OpenGL using Class CImage

5 Aug 2016 by Petrov Vladimir

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