Windows controls, device contexts, pens, brushes, etc.

A tutorial on the acquisition of sound samples using Win32 API.

CCustToolBar -- A customizable toolbar class. CCustToolBar encapsulates the Win95 toolbar common control into an MFC toolbar class. Extra features include the ability to serialize the toolbar to the registry or to disk, and the ability to handle customization of toolbars with controls other than buttons and reserved painting areas. You can also pop up a customization dialog that allows the user to add or remove any icons he chooses.

COCXInsertDialog -- An MFC class for selecting an OLE control from a dialog containing all of the OCX's (represented by their small bitmaps and text descriptions) available from the registry.

• DTime - A Collection of Date and Time classes
• Notpad - An improved text editor for Windows 95 and NT
• DtWinVer - A comprehensive OS detection routine
• PushPin - A pushpin button class
• Splasher - An improved splash screen component for MFC 4.x

• Pointer Classes
• Win32 Memory API Wrappers
• File Management Classes
• String Classes
• Storage Classes
• Algorithms
• Multithreading
• Client-Server
• MFC Extensions

DDE classes -- MFC classes for doing DDE: CDDEServer, CDDEClient and CDDEConnection.

CImage -- A beta class for manipulating images: JPEG/BMP/PNG saving and loading, GIF loading, and iteration over the image data.

CTimer -- A timer class for MFC, which unaccountably omits one.

CExpr -- Classes for reading and writing structured ASCII files. Do you ever get a little frustrated with maintaining binary file formats? Things like not being able to edit your data files in a text editor, or the trouble it takes to maintain changes in your file formats. This class makes prototyping file formats a lot easier and more maintainable than using MFC/VC++ serialisation, allowing you to save a file of 'objects' with named attribute/value pairs. If you need to add or remove attributes in the next version of your application, old files are still easily readable without loads of if statements.

doodads.zip -- This project is designed to be used with Visual C++ 4.1. The project demonstrates many Windows common controls, including the extensive use of image lists. The project was used in the book "The Revolutionary Guide To MFC 4 Programming With Visual C++", published by Wrox Press. The sample was also used during the talk "Using Windows Common Controls", offered at Boston University's WinDev conference.

fully.zip -- FULLY shows how to make an MFC application make one of its views go full-screen active. It was written to be published in one of the staple-bound newsletter-style journals on Visual C++. After the editor for the magazine requested it, he summarily ignored my communication surrounding the program and its supporting article. The article, completely unedited, is included in this archive and describes the sample. Complete source for the program is included. This sample was written with a beta version of VC++ 4.1 and tested with the shipping version of VC++ 4.2. The sample was not tested to work correctly under Windows NT 3.51: it's only been tested for "new shell" versions of Windows: namely, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95.

mfctalk.zip -- MFC TALK was originally published with Mike's article on ISPAI programming with MFC in the May, 1996 issue of Microsoft Systems Journal. The sample demonstrates how to write an ISAPI application with the MFC classes introduced in MFC version 4.1. The sample shows how to use synchronization objects (specifically, a CCriticalSection) to protect data handled by individual requests from corruption across threads.

bstate.zip -- CBStateButton, an MFC class based on PushButton.

cktblmfc.zip -- Spreadsheet Control for MFC 2.5.

Color quantization DLL -- "This is an old dll that I threw together over one weekend to perform color quantization on 24-bit device-independent bitmaps. It's very disorganized and really needs to be rewritten. I may actually get around to it one day."

ActiveX -- shows how you can use the ATL (ActiveX Template Library).

Modal window -- Shows how to make your own window modal. The sample uses a frame.

Tab view -- Have you ever looked at Excel or some other program that can switch views by clicking on a tab. This approach makes it more easy for a user to work with a document that can't be manageable in just one single view.

Custom control -- Shows how you can develop controls that extends the functionality of standard controls, and how to develop a control from scratch.