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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

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.

IntelliFile - An Alternative Windows Version to the Famous Total Commander

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

This article is about the IntelliFile application which is a free alternative Windows version to Total Commander and uses many components that have been published on CodeProject.

by Ștefan-Mihai MOGA

An alternative Windows version to XML Sitemap online generators

Tile Grid Control

by PJ Arends

An MFC CWnd derived grid of user definable tiles

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MFC

"Browse For Folder" dialog alike with source

5 Sep 2001 by Marat Bedretdinov

Shell interfaces in use. IShellFolder, IEnumIDList, etc.

"Do not ask again" Message Boxes

4 Feb 2003 by Nicolas Bonamy

Two simple ways to add "Do not ask again" Message Boxes to your application.

"Select Computer" Dialog

16 Apr 2001 by Igor Sukhov

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

"Skinned" UI control library (VC++)

27 Mar 2007 by vishalkmehta

This article demonstrates how to leverage the power of images and inheritance to achieve a "skinned" look for your Windows applications.

"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties Dialog" showing made easy

19 Sep 2006 by tanvon malik

This article shows you ways to run Control Panel applets from VC++, even those that don't have a cpl extension file.

.NET - Localization using Resource file

15 Nov 2003 by Prakash Kumar Singh

This article explains and demonstrates various ways to implement localization in your .NET application.

.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

.NET Connector for Microsoft Outlook

19 Feb 2004 by Mathias Taylor

Export Microsoft Outlook data using XML DataSets and the Outlook COM Object Library.

.NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

9 Dec 2002 by Stoyan Damov

A Draft Implementation of an Idea for .NET Dynamic Software Load Balancing

.NET Namespace Toolbar

17 Sep 2004 by Nick Parker

A free IE toolbar that pulls up namespace and class documentation on the new MSDN site.

.NET Symmetric File Encryption Object

13 Aug 2002 by Bill Ferreira

File encryption object using Managed Extensions for C++

10 Measures to Reduce Credit Card Fraud for Internet Merchants

28 Jan 2013 by fraudlabs

solution to prevent chargebacks and to reduce fraud for online merchants

10 Minutes to document your code

19 Jan 2003 by peterchen

Setting up doxygen, a free tool to document your code, in a few simple steps.

2-3 tree implementation in C++

1 Oct 2013 by Mohamed Kalmoua

2-3 tree implementation in c++

2D Animated Charts

24 Jan 2005 by darkoman

An article on creating 2D animated charts using Windows GDI.

2D Drawing - Doc/View architecture

20 Jul 2012 by Sunil P V

This article is a simple geometry library for drawing lines, circles, arcs, text, etc.

computational-geometry

2D Fast Wavelet Transform Library for Image Processing

19 Oct 2007 by Chesnokov Yuriy

This article demonstrates the use of 2D Fast wavelet transform for image processing

2D Graph ActiveX Control

5 Aug 2003 by Nikolai Teofilov

An ActiveX control for 2D data visualisation

2D LUA Based Robot Simulator

14 Apr 2014 by auralius manurung

An article on designing your own robot simulator

2D Multi-Parameter Pie Control

7 Jan 2003 by valgouss

A simple 2D Pie Control

2DStatic

6 Apr 2005 by asef

An article for drawing a String formula at a static.

3D Studio Max like Slidable DialogBar

17 Feb 2002 by John Aspras

Ever seen 3D Studio 2.5 Slidable DialogBar? Want to know how they did it?

3DHelper

17 Feb 2009 by MikeTheDwarf

Helper class to display 3D data

3DStatic

6 Jun 2005 by asef

An article to draw a 3D math function on a static control.

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

10 Sep 2013 by 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.

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

A Simple Vector Editor

5 Jun 2002 by Joseph M. Newcomer

A simeple editor to make my polygon class a bit more usable.

A 'mouse repeat' function

8 Apr 2000 by Pete Sackett

A function that simulates the keyboard repeat behavior for mouse clicks

A .NET assembly viewer

28 Nov 2002 by Ben Peterson

An application to examine .NET assemblies both directly and with reflection

A 2D data visualisation class

20 Mar 2000 by Paul Barvinko

A comprehensive set of classes for displaying 2 dimensional data

A 2D Graph Component With Zoom Capability

21 Dec 2004 by Hossein Khosravi

A 2D graph component with zoom capability.

A 3D-Enabled View Base Class for SDI Direct3D Development

6 Feb 2005 by Bob Ciora

Definition of the CDSSD3DView8 class, a CView-derived class to facilitate Direct3D development with SDI.

A Basic iButton Interface

7 Mar 2003 by Marc Clifton

An Example Of How To Interface To Dallas Semiconductor's iButton And 1-Wire Network

A Basic Media Player

10 Jan 2013 by Mehdi Bonvari

Using MCIWnd wrapper class to write a simple media player

A Basic Undo/Redo Framework For C++

27 Jun 2002 by Yingle Jia

An article on implementing undo/redo functionality in C++.

A Beginner's Guide to the Linked List

31 Jul 2000 by Andrew Peace

An article showing the basics of the linked list, and how the CList class operates

A Beginners Guide to Dialog Based Applications - Part One

11 Aug 2000 by Dr. Asad Altimeemy

A step by step tutorial showing how to create your first windows program using MFC

A beginning DirectX application using MFC.

29 Mar 2004 by BlackDice

Lets user create and manipulate 3D DirectX models.

A Better Bitmap Button Class

14 Oct 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

An improvement on the CBitmapButton class.

A Better CenterWindow() Function

3 Oct 2000 by Brian C Hart

This is a good replacement for CWnd::CenterWindow() that works.

A better front end to WinDiff

18 Oct 2000 by Chris Maunder

A GUI front end to a handy utility

A Better(?) (Hyper)Link Control

21 Jan 2003 by James R. Twine

An article that describes yet another hyperlink control

A bevelline with horizontal and vertical text

9 Jan 2000 by Hans Bühler

A bevelline control that displays vertical and horizontal text

A border for the Frame window

17 Jul 2002 by Dave Matrix

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

A brief discussion on how to use three of the network management functions

2 May 2004 by David Crow

A brief discussion on how to use NetShareEnum, NetConnectionEnum, and NetFileEnum

A Button Group Control

12 May 2001 by Andrew Peace

An article showing a button group control used to create toolbar-type groups as seen in the Visual Studio options dialogs.

A Button with Rollover Behavior using C++

7 Jan 2003 by datenkabel

This class provides a button with rollover behavior

A C++ Breakout Game Clone in Less than 64 Lines

23 Feb 2007 by Ronounours

I propose a simple version of a Breakout (or Arkanoid) game in few C++ lines.

A C++ Firefox component intercepting/operating HTML DOM

10 Oct 2007 by Jia.Chen

This article uses a simple example to show how to build a Firefox component intercepting/operating DOM

A C++ Implementation of an Improved Contour Plotting Algorithm

30 Jul 2002 by Jonathan de Halleux

This class generates isocurves of a user defined function. Curves are drawn to OpenGL dc or stored in line strips.

A C++ OCX for drawing pictures on any window of your Application

7 Nov 2002 by Romout

The control overwrites the windows event handler to overtake the paint event.

A C++ Win32 GUI library for Java-AWT-like source code

15 Dec 2005 by Gabriel Bizzotto

This library provides a simple set of classes for creating GUIs. It uses only the Win32 API with some common controls. The development is at the beginning and many changes are to be done.

A C++ Wrapper for the WinSNMP Library

16 Sep 2005 by Rogério Paulo

A C++ library for developing SNMP managers (clients) on Windows.

A C++ Wrapper for TWAIN

7 Feb 2000 by Rajiv Ramachandran

A C++ wrapper for TWAIN. Allows you to implement a scanning interface.

19 Jan 2000 by Zoran M. Todorovic

An auto-sizing dialog used to store and display smaller child dialogs.

A chat control based on the Rich Edit control

6 Dec 2003 by Rob Manderson

Using the Rich Edit control as a chat window.

A Checkbox Tree Control for Use in Filtering Selections

23 Feb 2003 by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin

An ATL filter control

A CHexEdit Control - For HEX and DEC number input

15 Aug 2005 by Luo Pei'en

An article on how to write an Edit control used for HEX and DEC number input.

A class based on CFileDialog that provides easy image preview

22 Mar 2004 by Rob Manderson

Browse your images with a file open dialog and see what you've selected

A class for child dialogs

3 Nov 2003 by Chris Hills

How to put a child dialog in a dialog box

A Class for Getting NetCard Adapter Information

10 Sep 2002 by YangTze

This class can be used to get netcard adapter information such as MAC,IP,DHCP

A class for the automation of simple computer tasks using keybd_event and CreateProcess

17 Mar 2006 by Ankit Tandon

This class uses keybd_event and CreateProcess to create a script processor and executor. The script can be used for automation of daily tasks such as opening and checking mail accounts, automating the functionality of software etc. This will work with any app which can take input via keyboard.

A Class of Accessing inifile in UNICODE

25 Sep 2006 by aaa_xxx_aaa

The Win API cannot access inifile in UNICODE, sometimes, we may want to add some wide characters into INI file, so I wrote a class to access INI file in UNICODE

A Class to Combine Slider Control and Progress Bar Windows

23 Jan 2018 by Cem KARACA

An article on how to combine Slider Controls and Progress bar into one class using custom draw

A class to download files from the net

16 Apr 2002 by Chris Maunder

A simple class to ease the task of downloading files from the net

A class to easily generate AVI video with OpenGL and Video for Windows

26 Oct 2002 by Jonathan de Halleux

If you want to generate an AVI video from your OpenGL application, this is the class you need.

A class to make it easy to enumerate folder contents

5 Apr 2004 by Rob Manderson

Enumerating folder contents the reusable way

A class to make it easy to work with file names

26 Dec 2003 by Rob Manderson

Working with filenames

A Class to Save and Load Listbox Data

2 Jan 2002 by Kuniva

CListBoxSafe is a class that can save data from a listbox to file and load data from a file into a listbox.

A class to synchronise thread completions

15 Oct 2004 by Rob Manderson

Synchronising thread completion the easy way

A CListBox with automatic HSCROLL maintenance

27 Jun 2001 by Joseph M. Newcomer

Taking the pain out of adding a horizontal scrollbar to a listbox.

A closer look at XML Data Binding, including a product appraisal

18 Aug 2004 by Sprotty

An introduction to XML Data Binding, and a review of a number of leading products.

A Codecless Monochrome AVI Reader

14 May 2006 by Frederic Ntawiniga

The way of reading AVI files without installing codec drivers.

A color picker button

4 Sep 2000 by James White

A simple modification to Chris Maunder's "Office 97 style Colour Picker" control

A color picker dialog with a color dropper like Photoshop and Frontpage 2000

23 Jan 2002 by jack Mesic

A color picker and dropper that extends the standard Windows dialogs to behave like Photoshop or Frontpage 2000

A COM component offering Internet download utilities

22 Dec 2002 by Philipos Sakellaropoulos

A COM component written in C++ that offers functions for multiple parallel downloads, Internet cache access, URL and path resolving.

A ComboBox using XML as dictionary

24 Oct 2002 by Johnson Zhou

Create a new combobox which can fill itself automatically using a dictionary in XML

A Combobox with bitmaps

24 Nov 1999 by Anneke Sicherer-Roetman

A combo box that can be used to display bitmaps

A Comfortable Custom Text-control for Generating helptext in Dialogs

25 May 2011 by Rob A. Fraydl

Extends the CStatic with image, frame, shadow and using individual font

A Command Line Class

1 Oct 2001 by Carlos Antollini

A class that permit to get easily the command line parameters

A compact filename edit control

4 Feb 2003 by Martyn Pearson

An edit control that encapsulates compacting of filenames

A Comparative Study of Java and C#

30 Aug 2003 by gspatwal

A brief article comparing and contrasting the features of Java and C#.

virtual-machine

A Complete Read Only ComboBox

18 Jun 2012 by Thomas Wells

A ComboBox with a read-only property that allows text copy and drop-down viewing

A Complete Screen Saver Framework Using MFC

25 Oct 2002 by Chen Su

complete screen saver framework with an installation program.

A cool bitmap slider like Media Player's...

23 Jul 2004 by jackey_xp

A cool bitmap slider like Windows Media Player's.

A cool game that uses the mouse

18 May 2004 by Pure_Acid

A cool game that uses the mouse

A Cool GDI Pattern Brush Tool with C++ Source Code

27 Aug 2003 by ucc801

A cool GDI pattern brush tool with C++ source code. You can create a new office XP style pattern fill mode quickly.

A cool skin GUI with shadow border

25 May 2008 by James Duy Trinh (VietDoor)

A cool skin GUI with shadow border; display images (supports many formats) on dialogs, buttons, listboxes.

A CStatic derived class using Direct3D Retained Mode

2 Apr 2001 by Jason Troitsky

A CStatic derived class that can be dropped into an application to provide the ability to load and display 3D objects

A custom drawing application based on the .NET Panel class

6 May 2005 by Naveen Karamchetti

Creation of a custom drawing application based on the .NET Panel class.

A Custom Group Combo Box

12 Jun 2001 by Brett R. Mitchell

A combobox-like control that allows groupings within the elements in the dropdown list.

A Custom GUI System

31 May 2006 by oto spal

If you demand the most possible control of your code, if you like to force Windows looking your way, and if you are lazy enough, this tutorial is exactly for you.

A Custom GUI System - Part 2: Dialogs and Controls

31 May 2006 by oto spal

This article explains how the support for dialogs and various controls were implemented in the custom GUI system.

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.

A Customized Window for MFC Applications

1 Dec 2008 by PrasadPerera

This article is to basically explain how to create a customized drawn window for MFC applications.

A Date and Time formatter

19 Feb 2003 by João Paulo Figueira

A class to format COleDateTime objects into strings using standard formatting codes.

A DDK's project wizard for VC2003

14 Nov 2003 by SevenCat

A DDK's project wizard for VC2003.

A Decimal Class Implementation

16 Feb 2003 by Marc Clifton

Use this class when high precision is required in basic numerical operations.

A DevStudio-Like Application with a Variety of UI Components

26 Jul 2010 by Yiping Cheng

A MFC application featuring a syntax coloring text editor, DevStudio-like toolbar, status bar, and output window, and multithreaded computing

A DIBSection wrapper for Win32 and WinCE

21 May 2001 by Chris Maunder

A class that makes using DIBSections as simple as using a CBitmap