VS 2017 C++, MFC and cpropertypages and cpropertysheets

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Hey Guys I have a question with regards to PropertyPages and PropertySheets with MFC and VS 2017.

I'm currently merging a project from VS 2008 to VS 2017. This is written in C++ and MFC and was originally written for 32 bit. In VS 2017 the goal is to merge it on to a 64 bit platform.

Anyway one of the controls uses the CPropertyPage and CPropertySheet classes. In VS 2008 this works very well. However in VS 2017 (I'm running 15.9.14) I'm having a terrible time of it. In the property page classes, the property pages stack classes are getting corrupted. If I go system font on the controls I get Comctrl32.dll exceptions. Also when I go back to basics and start with a fresh PropertyPage and Propertysheet classes I have to manually associate the control ID's etc. This is most weird. Also I did use the CMFCPropertyPage and CMFCPropertySheet classes.

The question I'm posing would anyone have a sample MFC VS 2017 project that uses property pages/sheets that I could have a look at? Also some tips and tricks would be most appreciated.

Many thanks in advance. I realise some of these are silly questions but I figure a few people might find themselves in my boat so I figured it was a question worth asking.

What I have tried:

What I have tried to resolve this issue was the following,

*Re ordering the members and declaration in my CPropertyPage classes.
*In the resource dialog changing the system font and shifting the font to MS Sans Serif 8 point.
*Creating a fresh property page and sheet.

Posted 22-Aug-19 3:32am

D_code_writer

Updated 22-Aug-19 5:27am

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Shao Voon Wong 24-Aug-19 3:05am

Does it work correctly in 32bit on VS 2017? Did you tried clean and rebuild the projects?

D_code_writer 24-Aug-19 5:05am

Shao - That is correct sir I did a complete rebuild and clean on the 64 bit version. However the goal was to go to 64 bit so I didn't try the 32 bit road in VS 2017

Shao Voon Wong 24-Aug-19 6:00am

You should have made sure the 32bit is working first.

D_code_writer 24-Aug-19 7:29am

Maybe mate but it would have been academic since the whole point of this exercise was the 64 bit conversion.

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Rick York · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-22T05:27:00

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Have a look at a project called NewControls in the visual studio 2010 sample pack. You can find it here : VCSamples/VC2010Samples/MFC/Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack/NewControls at GitHub[^].

That sample app has a property sheet with six pages which demonstrate controls added to MFC in 2010.

Posted 22-Aug-19 5:27am

Rick York

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Rick York 22-Aug-19 13:46pm

Personally, I prefer to implement property pages with a base class known to the sheet and then no other header files. In fact, the vast majority of dialogs I write these days have no headers. Actually, I can't remember the last time I made a header file for a dialog. There's just really no need for one when all you need is a single interface function to pass in the data to edited and I define the prototype in the header that defines the data.

D_code_writer 22-Aug-19 20:55pm

Thank you kind sir - I appreciate it.