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Dialog & Windows - Beginners			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Windows Message Handling - Part 4 Updated: 25 Apr 2003   Reflected Messages, MFC and SDK Subclassing VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Daniel Kopitchinski	4.76
Windows Message Handling - Part 3 Updated: 8 Jun 2000   Handling messages in SDK programs. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Daniel Kopitchinski	4.69
Windows Message Handling - Part 2 Updated: 7 Jun 2000   Message Maps, User defined messages and Registered Messages VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Daniel Kopitchinski	4.65
Windows Message Handling - Part 1 Updated: 7 Jun 2000   An introduction to basic Windows messages such as WM_SIZE and WM_CLOSE, and how to add your own handlers VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Daniel Kopitchinski	4.48
Beginners Guide to Dialog Based Applications - Part Two Updated: 29 Jun 2000   A step by step tutorial showing how to create your first Windows program using MFC. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Dr. Asad Altimeemy	4.47
Tutorial - Modeless Dialogs with MFC Updated: 18 Jun 2002   Some tips/suggestions on using modeless dialogs with MFC VC6, VC7, VS.NET2002, Windows, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Nishant Sivakumar	4.32
Creating your first Windows application Updated: 14 Jun 2000   A brief step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates creating an SDI based application that does not use the MFC Doc/View architecture. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Daniel Kopitchinski	4.29
A Beginners Guide to Dialog Based Applications - Part One Updated: 11 Aug 2000   A step by step tutorial showing how to create your first windows program using MFC VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Dr. Asad Altimeemy	4.27
Subclassing and Owner Drawing, the SDK Way Updated: 14 Aug 2001   An article describing how to use the Win32 SDK to subclass controls, and to give them a custom appearance using owner draw. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Paul A. Howes	4.24
Creating your first MFC Doc/View application Updated: 10 Sep 2000   A brief step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates creating an SDI and MDI based applications using the MFC Doc/View architecture. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Chris Maunder	4.06
Tile, center and stretch a bitmap as your MFC dialog background Updated: 6 Jun 2002   A small CDialog derived class that helps avoid frequent copy/pasting of the same code, when using a bitmap as dialog background VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nishant Sivakumar	4.02
MessageBalloon - an enhanced MessageBox Updated: 18 Apr 2007   An enhanced MessageBox, no need for user interaction to dismiss C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Design, Intermediate	nicoster	3.22
Browse Folder dialog, search folder and all sub folders using C/C++. Updated: 22 Jul 2002   Opens a Browse Folder window, then searches each file of the selected folder and all subfolders. VC7, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	JHawkZZ	3.02
Simple MFC independent Open-Save File Dialog class Updated: 13 Mar 2007   OpenSaveFile Dialog Class VC7, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Denys Ponomarenko	1.81
Dialog & Windows - Caption Bars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Full Screen Caption bar Updated: 3 Feb 2004   Description on how to implement a full screen caption bar in Win32/MFC. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Lars [Large] Werner	4.05
Customized Skinned Caption for MDI Updated: 16 Jun 2002   Make your customized skinned caption bar for MDI VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ashok Jaiswal	3.57
Dialog & Windows - Console Programming			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
QuickWin - Turn a console application into a Windows program Updated: 17 Oct 2000   Redirect stdin, stdout and stderr into a window VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Lanz Jean-Claude	4.75
Forms for Console Apps Updated: 7 Aug 2006   A framework for employing reusable, declarative interfaces for console applications. C# 2.0, XML, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Advanced	Sean Michael Murphy	4.58
C# command line parsing Updated: 1 Sep 2008   A simple base class to extract command line options. .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, Windows, .NET, DBA, Dev, Intermediate, Advanced, SysAdmin	Keith Fletcher	4.48
Writing to and read from the console - From a GUI application using the same cout/cin and printf/scanf Updated: 23 Oct 2006   Adapt console to GUI applications using ConsoleAdapter. VC6, WinXP, VS6, Dev, Intermediate	Sudheesh.P.S	4.48
NConsoler - command line parser library for .NET Updated: 8 Sep 2008   Command line parser based on meta information. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, Dev, Intermediate	Maxim Tihobrazov	4.32
Threads and Pipes in Console Apps Updated: 10 Jul 2008   When a dynamically-resizable dialog is created, you may find it desirable to have controls resize or rearrange themselves dynamically in response to these changes. This project shows some simple techniques to use when the arrangements are not too complex. It also incorporates two other projects, the VS.NET2003, C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Joseph M. Newcomer	4.04
Dialog and Windows Programming - Control Positioning			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Control Positioning and Sizing using a C++ Helper Class Updated: 20 Sep 2005   Add layout management of controls to a CWnd or CDialog using a C++ helper class. VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	nschan	4.72
EvaLayout, Lay it be! Updated: 1 Jan 2008   An efficient and flexible layout mananger. VC6, NT4, SQL 2000, VS6, MFC, DBA, Dev, Intermediate	Alejandro Xalabarder	4.64
Win32 dialog helpers Updated: 18 Apr 2003   Easy support for dialog resizing and ActiveX controls VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	Stephane Rodriguez.	4.51
Easy dialog control resizer Updated: 22 Sep 2003   Simple implementation of "anchors" and "docking" features implemented in .NET forms VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	uemaker	4.33
Drag and Drop Windows/Form Controls (Design UI at Runtime) Updated: 13 Sep 2007   Enables user to design the user interface by moving all form controls to the desired place. It allows to move the control at execution time. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	vikas maan	3.71
Control Positioner -- Repostion your child windows without code change Updated: 24 Jun 2003   This is a small class for control repositioning. It can create an INI file, which logs all aspects of your control. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ziming	3.27
Find and Minimize or Maximize or Restore the window - Unedited Updated: 19 Dec 2007   Find and Minimize or Maximize or Restore the window NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, TabletPC, Embedded, Windows, WinForms, Intermediate	Mohan Kumar	2.71
Dialog & Windows - Dialogs			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
EasySize - Dialog resizing in no time! Updated: 23 Mar 2007   An easy way to position controls in resizable dialogs or property pages using just a few macros VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Marc Richarme	4.75
Building a Dynamic UI using a CWnd Free Pool Updated: 6 Jan 2007   Classes for building MFC-based user interfaces dynamically, with a focus on minimizing resource usage. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, XML, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	nschan	4.74
XBrowseForFolder - Wrapper for SHBrowseForFolder Updated: 7 Mar 2008   XBrowseForFolder wraps the SHBrowseForFolder API, provides a way to specify an initial directory, and cleans up the SHBrowseForFolder dialog. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.72
XMessageBox - A reverse-engineered MessageBox() Updated: 29 Nov 2008   A reverse-engineered non-MFC MessageBox() that includes custom checkboxes. WinXP, Vista, VS2005, VS6, VS2008, C++, Win32, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.72
Full implementation of IShellBrowser Updated: 3 Oct 2008   A VS-like open and save file dialog implementation. WinXP, VS2005, C# 2.0, C#, Windows, Visual Studio, Dev, Advanced	Frohmen	4.69
A class for child dialogs Updated: 3 Nov 2003   How to put a child dialog in a dialog box VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Hills	4.68
XFolderDialog - a folder selection dialog based on CFileDialog Updated: 25 Feb 2008   XFolderDialog provides a folder selection dialog like that used in MS Word, and includes persistent list view type. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.67
CIconDialog - Selecting Icons Updated: 28 Mar 2004   The CIconDialog class allows you to add an icon-selection dialog box to your applications VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Armen Hakobyan	4.67
"Select Computer" Dialog Updated: 16 Apr 2001   The ATL and MFC versions of the class that implements a dialog for selecting users(computers) within the Windows Network. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, ATL, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Igor Sukhov	4.61
XMonoFontDialog - Customizing CFontDialog Part II: Selecting Monospaced Fonts Updated: 22 Oct 2008   XMonoFontDialog is a CFontDialog clone that is customized for selecting monospaced fonts. A custom label has been added to the dialog that informs the user when a monospaced font is selected in the combobox, and bold typeface is used to highlight monospaced fonts in the combobox list. WinXP, Vista, VS2005, VS6, C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.60
XFontDialog - Customizing CFontDialog Part I: Adding Font Filters Updated: 7 Oct 2008   XFontDialog demonstrates how to customize CFontDialog by removing unwanted controls VC6, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.57
CResizableDialog Updated: 27 Oct 2001   A CDialog derived class to implement resizable dialogs with MFC VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Paolo Messina	4.56
How to implement a scrollable child dialog Updated: 11 May 2003   How to implement a scrollable child dialog VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Massimiliano Conte	4.55
Hosting .exe applications into a dialog Updated: 9 May 2007   An article on launching and embeding .exe applications into a dialog-based application VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Sherin Iranimose	4.53
Tabbed Dialog without Property Sheets Updated: 3 Mar 2004   How to use CDialog pointers to make a tab-controlled window VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Andrew Lawrence	4.52
Simple and more powerful resizable dialog Updated: 26 Sep 2004   A simple resizable dialog which resizes in NONE, RESIZE, REPOS, RELATIVE, ZOOM, DELTA_ZOOM mode and behaves differently in different directions(left, top, right, bottom) VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VS.NET2003, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Robert Python	4.41
Enhanced MFC message boxes Updated: 27 Feb 2004   How to replace the standard MFC message box with an enhanced version VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Michael P. Mehl	4.38
Outlook like notification window using ATL Updated: 11 Aug 2006   Create an Outlook like notification window using ATL. VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, ATL, Dev, Intermediate	prasad_som	4.38
CMagDialog Updated: 9 Nov 2005   CMagDialog: a class to enable dialogs to dock side by side. VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Francesco Aruta	4.35
AJAX-style Asynchronous Progress Dialog for WinForms Updated: 2 Mar 2008   A base class for adding a rich asynchronous progress animation to any Form. .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, Architect, Dev, Design, Intermediate, Advanced	Nathan Evans	4.34
Dialog Header Updated: 22 Jul 2002   Add a header to any dialog or property sheet VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	jmgurgel	4.33
How to extend the native MessageBox dialog in .NET Updated: 4 Aug 2007   This article introduces a way to extend the native MessageBox dialog without using Windows Hooks and message processing. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Yifeng Ding	4.33
CSettingsDialog, a Dialog Customizing Your Project Settings and More Updated: 11 Mar 2002   A Netscape Preferences-Like Dialog VC6, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	yellowine	4.32
Simple way to create non-rectangular shaped dialogs Updated: 6 Dec 2003   This article outlines a simple way to create dialogs which are not rectangular in shape VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	abhinaba	4.31
CDialogEx, CPropertySheetEx2 classes with status bar, toolbar and tool tips Updated: 28 Sep 2002   CDialogEx and CPropertySheetEx2 are classes derived from CDialog and CPropertySheetEx with support for status bar, toolbar and tool tips VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Martin Ziacek	4.31
XCharMap - A dialog to display a character map Updated: 3 Jun 2003   XCharMap demonstrates the use of CXCharMap, a class that displays a character map similar to the Windows Character Map utility. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.29
Keyboard messages/accelerators handling in MFC dialog based applications Updated: 1 Dec 2001   This article explains how you can override PreTranslateMessage and ProcessMessageFilter in dialog based apps VC6, VC7, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nishant Sivakumar	4.22
Creating embedded dialogs in MFC Updated: 29 Jul 2003   Creating embedded dialogs in MFC using DS_CONTROL VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	EK_Kiwi	4.22
Modeless Dialog Management Updated: 7 Jul 2003   A simple method for tracking and dealing with multiple modeless dialogs. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joe Calkins	4.18
XHTMLTipOfTheDay - HTML Tip of the Day Dialog Updated: 14 Jun 2004   XHTMLTipOfTheDay is a Tip of the Day dialog that displays HTML and has forward and back buttons. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.18
An Animation-Style Dialog Class Updated: 12 Feb 2002   CAniDialog : An Animation-Style Dialog Class Derived from CDialog and Using DrawWireRects VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	=[ Abin ]=	4.16
Using Dialog Templates to create an InputBox() in C++ Updated: 15 Mar 2006   Using dialog templates to create an InputBox() in C++, similar to that of VB's InputBox(). VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	lallous	4.14
Transparent Static Text In Dialogs Updated: 4 Jul 2004   A simple way to make static text controls draw transparently over the dialog background. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	danamac	4.13
MSN Messenger type status bar popup message box Updated: 21 Oct 2001   MSN Messenger type status bar popup message box VC6, VC7, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Prateek Kaul	4.11
Message Balloons Updated: 28 Nov 2002   Message Balloons as opposed to Message Boxes VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Prateek Kaul, RK_2000	4.09
A thread-safe timed message box Updated: 12 Feb 2001   The system Message Box that is closed atuomatically after some time VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Markus Loibl	4.04
Delay MessageBox with auto-close option Updated: 13 Aug 2002   This message box delays its dismissal by disabling the OK button for a delay interval. It also has an optional auto-close feature. There are two versions, one uses a WH_CBT hook and some basic window tricks like sub-classing to achieve its goal. The other one is more MFC-ied. VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Shog9, Nishant Sivakumar	3.99
How to include a dialog without copying from .RC Updated: 26 Nov 2001   This code allows you to include a dialog in your code snippets without requiring a user to copy from your resource file and pasting it into their own. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Brad Bruce	3.91
EZOptionsDlg - Netscape Preferences like dialog Updated: 16 Apr 2001   A modified property sheet with the tree control replacing the tabs. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Lakshmi Vyas	3.87
A drop-in replacement for MessageBox() Updated: 4 Jan 2005   Other articles describe replacements for MessageBox() with extra buttons for "Yes to All" and "No to All", but you still have to write the code to handle those buttons. This article presents a class that does all the work for you. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Hills	3.80
Save and restore dialog controls' states Updated: 28 Feb 2004   A simple but universal way to save and restore state of dialog controls VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	uemaker	3.79
SHBrowseForFolder with Explorer style file open dialog PlacesBar (Toolbar) Updated: 22 Oct 2006   Now, SHBrowseForFolder has the same look and feel as the Explorer file open dialog box. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	tanvon malik	3.78
Auto-close message box Updated: 23 Jul 2007   A simple solution for automatically closing a message box. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	thammadi	3.76
Creating a Dialog-based App Updated: 15 Oct 2001   This is my method of creating dialog-based apps, and in addition, illustrates how to handle the Enter key in an edit control. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	3.75
Subclassing Dialogs and Property Pages Updated: 5 Apr 2001   You have a lot of dialogs that have a lot of properties in common. You'd like to derive the specialized ones from the general ones. Here's how. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joseph M. Newcomer	3.71
Bitmap Backgrounds For Dialog Boxes Updated: 28 May 2007   An article on setting a Bitmap as the Dialog Background. NO API VC7, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	ImmelmanQ	3.71
CInputBox 1.0 Updated: 30 Nov 2001   A CFrameWnd derived class that provides functionality similar to the VB InputBox function. You don't need a dialog resource to use the class! VC6, VC7, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nishant Sivakumar	3.70
Create a modeless dialog box as child window Updated: 9 Nov 2000   Simple step by step article explaining how to create a modeless dialog box as child window. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Thomas Blenkers	3.68
A Gradient Title Bar for modal and modeless dialog Updated: 22 Jan 2001   This article shows you how to give your Win95/NT4 modeless dialogs a Win98/W2K like gradient title bar. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Amit Dey	3.64
Adding a splash screen to your dialog based application Updated: 8 Aug 2002   Splash screens are not only for Doc/View based applications VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kirk Stowell	3.64
Customised Modal Dialog Updated: 23 Apr 2008   Modal dialog with a user-defined look and feel. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, WinXP, C++, C++/CLI, C, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	lata07mahi	3.60
An alternative to the often asked view-in-dialog problem using a dialog bar Updated: 2 Jul 2002   In this article I show an alternative to the tricky (and thus often unstable) attempts to create a view on a dialog. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	thom_as	3.57
Background Task Dialog Updated: 19 Apr 2004   A wrapper for dialog boxes where you must do a long-time process but you don't want your application to appear to be HUNG. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Mauro Leggieri	3.55
Tips for dialog based applications Updated: 25 Aug 2002   Beginners tips for dialog based applications VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	VGirish	3.52
Splash screen with contents of the VERSIONINFO Updated: 24 Apr 2004   Easy to implement splash screen for dialog based applications that displays the contents of VERSIONINFO. Look at this! VC6, NT4, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Thomas Latuske	3.51
Modifying a modal dialog's style and position at run time Updated: 20 Feb 2006   This article describes how to modify a modal dialog's styles and position at run-time so it can work both as a child of a CPropertySheet as well as a pop-up window on its own. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Rafique Sheikh	3.50
Drag & Drop Dialog Updated: 27 Mar 2002   A dialog-class which you can drag around the screen by clicking anywhere on it. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jochen Duell	3.39
Movement Restricted Dialog Form Updated: 25 Feb 2008   How to restrict a dialog form's movement area. Useful for MDI applications. .NET 2.0, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, .NET, Win32, Dev, Intermediate	DaveyM69	3.38
How to move a dialog which does not have a caption Updated: 21 Apr 2007   Two ways to move a dialog by dragging its client area. VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, WTL, Dev, Intermediate	Igor Vigdorchik	3.25
Creating a dynamically translucent dialogue - Unedited Updated: 1 Aug 2008   Using 2 common techniques to create uncommon UI VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, C++, C++/CLI, C, Dev, Beginner	CheerJeer	3.23
Font Properties Property Page Updated: 4 Oct 2004   Adding the functionality of the ChooseFont() function to a property sheet VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Niklas Lindquist	3.20