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2 Nov 2010 by Daniel Ranger
Native C++ implementation of the .NET Asynchronous Design Pattern using Windows I/O Completion Ports
19 Jan 2003 by peterchen
Setting up doxygen, a free tool to document your code, in a few simple steps.
15 Jun 2003 by Mike Melnikov
Google-like Toolbar with customization from xml file and update from web features
11 Dec 2006 by Shunix
This article is intended to show an opportunity for customizing the list view control (report view, single-line mode) using the custom scrollbar control.
11 Jul 2011 by Ed Gadziemski
CWtlPicture attaches to an owner-drawn picture control and reads, displays, and saves disk or database images
20 May 2007 by Michael Dunn
Busted features? APIs failing? Use this guide to get your IE plugin up and running again in protected mode!
9 Mar 2000 by Sandu Turcan
A library that provides the easiest way to get loosely coupled components.
11 Mar 2008 by xueming.yan
A fast and lightweight cell control for displaying tabular data. The cell is a custom control derived from ATL::CWindow.
21 Jan 2002 by Voinkov
A policy based implementation of UI updating that accumulates and executes UI changes.
6 Oct 2003 by Ilya Solnyshkin
A Static control with a gradient
6 Dec 2001 by Michael Dunn
This article demonstrates redirecting output of a child process, and displaying a web browser UI using DHTML.
6 Oct 2005 by Jozef Bozek
A CGuid class for manipulating the GUID structure.
22 Aug 2004 by fftz
The CMDIBase template provides multiple view UI support for WinCE WTL-based projects.
12 May 2007 by Satervalley
This small tool shows some real-time system information, such as network speed, CPU utilization, time period and so on on the screen .
10 Mar 2002 by Paul A. Howes
An article detailing a simple memory-based device context for the WTL, to be used when flicker-free double-buffered drawing is desired
6 Sep 2000 by Milan Gardian
Notes on updating your WTL installation
13 Dec 2004 by Alain Rist
Some proposed WTL classes and functions at work: CAppWindow, CFullScreenFrame, CStdDialog, CF_DIB clipboard support, and more...
11 Feb 2008 by João Paulo Figueira
Capture your Windows Mobile device screen via ActiveSync or WMDC.
22 Dec 2001 by David Y. Zhao
This is a simple tabbed MDI for WTL
1 Jul 2003 by Junlei Li
Use an easy-to-use templated class to custom the title bar of windows.
23 May 2003 by Tony Ioanides
An alternative approach to selecting date ranges.
6 Jul 2008 by jangtimjang
A ready-to-use wrapper class for creating a shortcut (.lnk file) and a bookmark (.url file) and finally attaching an online icon resource to it.
1 Oct 2001 by Zilin
A class to develop OpenGL programs which can be easily plugged into your WTL programs
31 Aug 2001 by Paul A. Howes
A WTL adaptation of James Twine's Dim Edit control.
10 Jan 2006 by Jozef Bozek
Implemetation of a simple DocView framework like MFC.
27 Apr 2002 by Paul M Watt
A message loop class that is suitable for game programming in WTL.
22 Jan 2002 by Noel Frankinet
21 Jun 2009 by _oti
A WTL Hunspell-checked edit control.
21 Jun 2002 by Stephen Jones
This article describes a tab control that automates the management of tab windows.
12 Sep 2002 by Derick Cyril Thomas
A WTL Implementation of XP Button and Edit Box
23 Aug 2000 by Ramon Smits
A font combo box that previews the fonts in the dropdown view
23 Mar 2006 by Rory Buchanan
An article on using accelerators in WTL dialogs.
12 Apr 2004 by Lonnie McCullough
A set of macros and classes that allow declarative access to registry settings.
6 Oct 2006 by Michael C. Robert
Demonstrates how to use WTL and C++ to access an Excel spreadsheet using Visual Studio .NET 2003.
11 Sep 2003 by Zhang YanFeng
This article will show you how to make MDI window of WTL into ATL control by using a real world example.
2 Nov 2004 by Alain Rist
CZoomScrollImpl extends WTL CScrollImpl to allow continuous zooming.
30 Sep 2002 by Ernest Laurentin
Shows how to use Microsoft Script Hosting inside existing ATL/WTL Application
13 Jun 2008 by Noel Frankinet
A virtual WTL ListView control on an SQLite3 table or view.
3 Feb 2002 by Michael Dunn
An advanced utility that scans computers for missing hotfixes, and helps you download and install them.
5 Jun 2003 by Tony Ioanides
An MS Outlook-style mini-calendar control using WTL
5 Jun 2008 by João Paulo Figueira
How to animate child view transitions on a Windows Mobile WTL application.
1 Jun 2003 by Bjornar Henden
A WTL Grid mostly aimed for use against databases.
31 Mar 2005 by xryl669
The final article about API hooking, with a working example of a thread deadlock detector.
8 Feb 2015 by tkontos
A WTL based, XML driven shortcut replacement
14 Jan 2004 by Igor Vigdorchik
A port of MFC CArchive class to simplify serialization in WTL and non-MFC projects
23 May 2002 by Eugene Polonsky
Complete implementation of .NET IDE's snapping windows in ATL/WTL
5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin
Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.
24 Feb 2006 by lyshsd
ATL/WTL version of Samuel Gonzalo's CPath1.2
17 Aug 2003 by NormDroid
Implementation of Auto Completion ComboBox for WTL
27 Feb 2004 by c-smile
Auto Value is an implementation of variables having undefined state
14 Oct 2004 by Pavel Martyanov
COM object for easy user input in multiline edit boxes
19 Jan 2006 by Till Krullmann
A WTL extension which introduces layout maps to automatically update the layout in resizable dialogs.
16 Jul 2006 by xanatos
AutoSizeDlg - an autoresizing class for ATL/WTL
2 Jun 2004 by Igor Vigdorchik
Simple implementation of a bargraph control for graph plotting
4 Dec 2005 by mb2sync
Performs conversions between values of type bool, BOOL and VARIANT_BOOL.
2 Sep 2005 by mb2sync
Consistent interfaces to CString using Boost.Range.
17 Mar 2009 by T800G
Create unique preprocessor macros to prevent multiple header inclusion.
6 Jan 2003 by anandaji
This article shows how we can use caching while performing insert, edit and update functions in the DataGrid.
14 Sep 2005 by Neil Yao
A reusable WTL base class to support AppBar
25 Dec 2006 by isemenov
A simple Win32 ATOM type wrapper.
19 Sep 2005 by Neil Yao
A reusable WTL base class to add buttons on the caption bar.
29 Mar 2007 by Robin Debnath
Simplest way to skin a WTL Dialog in 3 easy steps
3 Nov 2003 by SGarratt
Get rid of annoying groupbox flicker when using resizeable windows; also effects adjustable minimum and maximum window size.
19 Feb 2001 by Rashid Thadha
19 Sep 2011 by isemenov
10 Sep 2013 by Pablo Aliskevicius
A mix-in class to change the appearance of a dialog, by handling WM_CTLCOLOR* messages, with five lines of code.
10 Mar 2002 by Rui Lopes
Class for Synchronizing the Active State of multiple windows.
19 Mar 2002 by Jean-Michel LE FOL
Ownerdrawn menu with the OfficeXP look (WTL version)
13 Jun 2002 by Tim Smith
Color picker control for WTL applications including optional support for XP themes
4 Oct 2001 by Laurent Kempé
A ComboBox listing all COM objects from specified COM Category
27 Nov 2003 by Emilio Garavaglia
This is the first of a series of articles where a comparison between different code styling is evaluated and made available.
8 Dec 2003 by Emilio Garavaglia
Second part: multiple projects, templates and inheritance.
29 May 2002 by Ramon Smits
An article about changing the look of WTL icon menu
2 Jun 2003 by Ferdie
Getting the correct column ordinals of an ADOX Table object.
29 Jan 2004 by Luuk Weltevreden
This article shows a workaround to the graphics bug that a checkbox or radio button is displayed with a black background on themed dialogs.
14 Feb 2005 by Eugene Pustovoyt
26 Dec 2002 by Vitaly Belman
Using this tutorial you will be able to create a ToDo file wich writes the dates and marks the done tasks. All this using macros.
4 Apr 2002 by Daniel Bowen
Issues and solutions when creating a new MDI child in a WTL application when the last active child was maximized
4 Aug 2004 by Pablo Aliskevicius
After you design your dialogs in Visual Studio, use the WTL Class Wizard to turn them into WTL classes and not just from Visual Studio 6!
26 Jun 2010 by imagiro
How to create JavasSript arrays and other objects from C++ code and pass them to the script.
7 Oct 2002 by Magomed Abdurakhmanov
Simple class to store application settings in registry
10 Nov 2002 by Rob Caldecott
Wrapper class for the WinInet InternetCrackUrl function
29 Jun 2002 by Oskar Wieland
CStringW and CStringA for WTL
9 Nov 2003 by Alain Rist
Add this small class to your existing dialog inheritance list and get nice tooltips on controls and dialog.
30 Nov 2000 by Billy Leverington
How to use WTL to create custom controls
13 Jul 2005 by Daniel Bowen
An extensible framework for creating customized tabs in ATL/WTL, with a VS.NET-like tab control implementation, tabbed frames, tabbed MDI, and more.
30 Jun 2005 by Franz Klein
A Cyclomatic complexity viewer application.
26 Jun 2001 by Serge Weinstock
A fully featured owner-draw button class
18 Nov 2007 by Alexander Uckun
The WTL way of adding number support to your controls.
7 Nov 2004 by JaeWook Choi
An article on EditListBox Control.
13 Dec 2008 by Jonathan Davies
Use two C++ classes which wrap various setup API calls to obtain, filter and display device names and information
17 Jul 2002 by Rashid Thadha
A port of Paul Dilascia MFC CTabCtrlWithDisable to WTL
26 Apr 2009 by Igor Vigdorchik
Class wrappers around the Win32 multi-monitor API
20 Apr 2004 by Pablo Aliskevicius
A mix-in class to help drop files into WTL windows.
4 Apr 2003 by Petr Prikryl
This article shows an alternative, and simpler way of downloading and installing WTL.