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CPPToolTip v2.1

Updated: 4 Mar 2005

A class that allows you to display your data for a control as tooltip

Eugene Pustovoyt

4.82

Designing a Windows Control - Part 1

Updated: 8 Nov 2002

How to design a commercial quality Windows control

Andreas Saurwein Franci Gonalves

4.80

Creating a Splash Screen that runs without a message pump

Updated: 14 Mar 2007

How to create a Splash Screen that can start before the main application thread.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

4.78

Divider Panel - A tutorial on creating a custom Windows Forms control from Start to Toolbox

Updated: 14 Sep 2004

A tutorial on building a custom C# Windows Forms control, covering topics such as inheritance, attributes, overrides, documentation, designers, signing and VS.Net ToolBox integration.

Furty

4.77

Simple Performance Chart
Updated: 8 Feb 2007

A simple Performance Chart/Monitoring Control

eclipse2k1

4.74

Applying an update UI notification interface to user-defined controls
Updated: 31 Jul 2000

A C++/MFC sample how to implement UI notifications for user-defined controls

Bernd Giesen

4.73

Pure C# .NET Desktop Color Picker With Magnifying Glass

Updated: 2 Feb 2007

A desktop color picker with magnifying glass written in C# 2.0 without using APIs with DllImport or something else.

nd1279

4.68

RichTextBoxExtended

Updated: 21 Jun 2006

A RichTextBox with a richtext toolbar.

Richard Parsons

4.66

Creating a custom Windows control: step-by-step tutorial
Updated: 24 Mar 2003

How to create a custom Windows control (one of possible methods) and how to write MFC front-end class for it.

Y.Z.

4.62

Creating Custom Controls
Updated: 12 May 2000

An introduction to creating custom controls using MFC

Chris Maunder

4.61

Edit Almost Anything- Part 1
Updated: 24 Sep 2004

Article to accompany source for controls to edit a wide range of data types and/or complex DataSets

Declan Brennan

4.59

DropDownPanel

Updated: 11 Feb 2007

A template for custom ComboBoxes

Alexander Stojakovic

4.56

Create your own controls - the art of subclassing

Updated: 26 Oct 2001

An introduction to subclassing the Windows common controls using MFC

Chris Maunder

4.49

Two simple workarounds for the ReportViewer problems

Updated: 4 Jan 2007

An article on the ReportViewer Problems.

Afrasiab Cheraghi

4.45

Adding controls to a dialog

Updated: 24 Mar 2001

An entry level tutorial on using one of the Windows Common Controls in a dialog.

Wolfram Steinke

4.41

A C# IP Address Control

Updated: 26 Oct 2007

A C# analogue to the MFC CIPAddressCtrl

Michael Chapman

4.38

GridView CheckBox Selection With a Twist
Updated: 27 Jan 2007

How to implement GridView Checkbox selection.

azamsharp

4.38

Writing your Custom Control: step by step

Updated: 1 Apr 2002

Making a cute button of two semi-transparent user-changeble colors

Alexandr_K

4.37

xpButton - XP Enabled Button Control
Updated: 5 Mar 2007

XP-enabled button control to change the look and feel of Windows application

A. Bhandari a.k.a Amit Bhandari

4.18

Scrollbars, using the WS_HSCROLL and WS_VSCROLL styles

Updated: 14 Jun 2002

How to use a CWnd's default scrollbars and to setup the thumb size correctly

Roger Allen

4.00

Custom shaped form with a drop down in C#
Updated: 5 Mar 2007

A simple way to create custom forms in C#

mredlon

4.00

Your first C# control
Updated: 21 Nov 2000

A very simple introduction to writing your first .NET control

Troy Marchand

3.94

Understand .NET Scrollbars
Updated: 28 Dec 2004

Thumb Size, Paging, and Sub-Paging issues.

Marc Clifton

3.85

C# Validating TextBox Control
Updated: 21 Jul 2002

A TextBox Control with Input Validation written in C#

Martin Haesemeyer

3.50

Creating Dynamic form and making the content fit
Updated: 17 Jan 2007

How to create dynamic form and organizing its content in a very simple way

David Domingues

3.43

3D Thermometer Control
Updated: 2 Feb 2007

3D Thermometer Control Drawn with GDI Plus

JJMatthews

3.29

Creating a control with the .NET SDK using C#
Updated: 18 Oct 2000

A quickstart guide to creating your first control in C#

norm .net

3.00

xpLabel - XP Enabled Label Control
Updated: 10 Feb 2007

XP-enabled label control to change the look and feel of Windows application

A. Bhandari a.k.a Amit Bhandari

2.40

Custom Flashing Button control.

Updated: 14 Jan 2007

How to create custom control that inherit button and add flashing feature (which highlight attention from user or indicate ongoing activity)

riscy

1.93

2D Graph ActiveX Control

Updated: 6 Aug 2003

An ActiveX control for 2D data visualisation

Nikolai Teofilov

4.83

Plot Graphic Library

Updated: 8 May 2003

A library to plot data (lines, maps...) in MFC projects.

Jonathan de Halleux

4.72

An Improved Analog Meter Control
Updated: 20 Jun 2000

An Analog Meter Control for displaying real-time data

Mark C. Malburg

4.72

High-speed Charting Control

Updated: 19 Apr 2007

A flexible charting control to display 2D data.

Cedric Moonen

4.70

CBarChart

Updated: 13 Feb 2007

CBarChart is a simple MFC control derived from CWnd. It can load data from a table or a stored procedure using ODBC.

Hamed Mosavi

4.65

Scientific charting control

Updated: 17 Jan 2005

Multi-purpose scientific charting control.

Gunnar Bolle

4.65

Oscilloscope/StripChart Control
Updated: 18 Jan 2000

A control that graphically displays numerical information

Mark C. Malburg

4.63

CHistogramCtrl, a windows 2000 like histogram control
Updated: 13 Apr 2001

A histogram control that is used to plot specified values within the defined range (limits)

Mehdi Mousavi

4.62

A 2D data visualisation class
Updated: 21 Mar 2000

A comprehensive set of classes for displaying 2 dimensional data

Paul Barvinko

4.55

NSChart Control

Updated: 8 Aug 2004

This control creates a chart in a dialog with Pie and Bar styles.

Ivan Cachicatari

4.47

C2DPushGraph: A Push Graph Control
Updated: 25 Apr 2005

A push graph control similiar to the graph control located in Microsoft's Task Manager.

Stuart Konen

4.24

Custom Control Graph and Process Bar

Updated: 13 Dec 2006

An article on a Win32 custom graph control and process bar creation.

Shanmuga Sundar.V

4.23

Pie Chart Control
Updated: 19 Aug 2001

This control creates a simple Pie Chart in a dialog

Yuheng Zhao

4.22

Analog Meter Class
Updated: 19 Jan 2000

A control that displays a numerical value as an analog meter

Mark C. Malburg

4.16

How to print an ActiveX MSChart control
Updated: 5 Aug 2002

A demonstration of printing or print previewing a MsChart component

Victor Porter

4.08

Using the MS Chart control in VC++
Updated: 15 Jun 2003

Setting data and labels on the MS Chart control using VC++

Alex C. Punnen

4.00

A Spectrum Analyzer at your desktop
Updated: 17 May 2004

A control for charting and graphing, especially for Spectrum Analyzer.

Mehdi Ebrahimian

3.75

Chart and Pie for data with hole
Updated: 4 May 2002

Chart and Pie for data with hole.

Tingshao Zhu

3.71

Avoiding the MSChart EditCopy / Legend bug in MFC
Updated: 2 Feb 2005

A workaround to the ActiveX MSChart control EditCopy / Legend bug in MFC.

Hans-Christian Andersen

3.67

Office 97 style Colour Picker control

Updated: 8 Dec 2007

A simple drop in color chooser control

VC6, Win95, Win98, WinME, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate

Chris Maunder

4.88

XColourPicker - yet another colour picker control
Updated: 10 Jan 2006

XColourPicker is a simple drop-in colour picker.

Hans Dietrich

4.78

CGradient and CGradientCtrl

Updated: 30 Jan 2003

A pair of classes for rendering and editing colourful washes

Joel Holdsworth

4.78

CColourPickerXP - a Theme-aware Colour Picker with 2 Styles.

Updated: 2 Jul 2003

An theme-aware colour picker MFC control that combines the functionalities of other colour pickers on CodeProject and adds some new functionality.

Zorglab

4.65

ColorFinder - Retrieve the color of any pixel on the Desktop

Updated: 1 Oct 2003

This article discusses the ColorFinder application that can be used to retrieve the color of any pixel on the desktop in various formats

abhinaba

4.64

An HSV/RGBA colour picker

Updated: 4 Apr 2006

An easy-to-use colour picker complete with RGB, HSV and alpha sliders.

nico80

4.50

Cool Colour Selector Including Hue, Saturation, and Lumination

Updated: 9 Nov 2006

This colour selector helps to make selecting colours more efficient

lhayes00

3.46

RGB Editor

Updated: 18 Apr 2003

RGB Color Coder

Barretto VN

2.91

Formula Editor

Updated: 16 Apr 2003

Formula-editor for editing and exporting mathematical content

tbw

4.83

CPPDumpCtrl - version 1.2

Updated: 20 Aug 2002

Class for view and edit data in Hex, Dec, Bin, Oct, Ascii formats

Eugene Pustovoyt

4.81

XAnalogClock - a skinnable analog clock

Updated: 20 Jul 2006

XAnalogClock displays a nice-looking skinnable analog clock in a small memory footprint.

Hans Dietrich

4.81

CWindowScroller

Updated: 21 Mar 2003

An MFC control for adding middle mouse button scrolling to any CWnd derived window

PJ Arends

4.76

Column Separator Control
Updated: 28 Apr 2004

A control to split text into fixed width columns

Vladimir L.

4.75

Advanced Checkers Control

Updated: 29 Nov 2001

A High performance "Disk Optimizer" like status display class

Leo Moll

4.74

Fancy controls
Updated: 24 Nov 2001

A new set of classes for a fancy look

Massimo Colurcio

4.73

Java 'Swing' style components written in MFC
Updated: 24 May 2000

A set of MFC classes the duplicate the Java Swing look and feel

Abhijit Bhole

4.70

CFlowchartEditor - linking things in CDiagramEditor

Updated: 5 Jul 2006

A flowchart editor with linked objects, based on CDiagramEditor.

Johan Rosengren

4.68

MS Outlook style Calendar
Updated: 6 Aug 2005

A custom CWnd derived control which simulates the functionality of MS Outlook Calendar control.

Rolando E. Cruz-Marshall

4.67

Report control - an Outlook 2000 style SuperGrid Report Control

Updated: 15 Jun 2001

An Outlook 98/2000 Style SuperGrid Report Control that tries to overcome some of the weaknesses of other implementations.

Maarten Hoeben

4.66

Ruler Control
Updated: 1 Oct 2002

Custom CRulerWnd control

HAMZADAYI

4.63

Multimedia PeakMeter Control

Updated: 26 Jun 2002

Multimedia Meter Control - ala WinAmp.

Ernest Laurentin

4.62

Report control - with category

Updated: 14 Oct 2005

A report control - with category.

andre arpin

4.61

XScrollBar - Scroll bar like Windows Media Player's

Updated: 21 Sep 2004

XScrollBar is a scroll bar that may be displayed with optional thumb color, thumb gripper, and channel color

Hans Dietrich

4.59

Balloon Help as a non-modal replacement for MessageBox()

Updated: 8 Aug 2002

Although sometimes useful, message boxes used to display information are often just annoying. This article describes a non-modal replacement.

Shog⁹

4.57

CScrollCtrl: An autoscrolling text control
Updated: 10 Mar 2002

Display autoscrolling text with logo and patterned background. Useful for about dialogs, misc fluff.

Shog⁹

4.56

LineTracker: A CRectTracker-like Class for Lines
Updated: 10 Apr 2002

This class will track lines like CRectTracker tracks rects

Dana Holt

4.50

Rollup Control

Updated: 17 Dec 2003

A 3DSMax like Rollup control

Johann Nadalutti

4.49

DayView - An Outlook Like Appointment View

Updated: 11 Nov 2002

An activeX control that mimics the behaviour of Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP Appointment list view

Christian S Andersen

4.48

CXPGroupBox -- XP style groupbox and window style groupbox

Updated: 22 Apr 2004

This class allows you to create XP style groupbox and window style groupbox.

JackCa

4.47

Delphi/VB/VS.NET-style ObjectInspector Control
Updated: 5 Aug 2001

A Delphi-Style Object Inspector

Gunnar Bolle

4.44

Office XP look & feel controls
Updated: 23 Jan 2002

Some controls (toolbar, button, combobox, ...) with the Office XP look and feel.

Jean-Michel LE FOL

4.43

A Spin Edit control with popup trackbar

Updated: 23 Apr 2004

An implementation of the spin-edit control used in Jasc Paint Shop Pro

John Gonzalez

4.39

Editable Date Picker

Updated: 20 Apr 2007

Fully editable date picker control based on CDateTimeCtrl.

Paul S. Vickery

4.39

Thumbnail Picture Control
Updated: 24 Oct 2002

A MFC thumbnail picture control

Rex Fong

4.21

An MFC ActiveX control to display trays
Updated: 16 Nov 2001

An MFC ActiveX control to display trays and samples, with selection and cherry picking properties

Roger Allen

4.13

CBFViewCtrl (BigFile Viewer Controller)

Updated: 10 Sep 2004

Controller that allows you to view very large files

Mathias S.

4.12

Odometer-style Counter Control
Updated: 26 Feb 2002

Create an odometer-style counter, with revolving digits,

svarrati

4.00

CGroupCheckBox control
Updated: 17 May 2004

A fully automated groupbox and checkbox for controling the state of its surrounded controls

RancidCrabtree

4.00

Owner-Draw Control Example: A Color Table Generator
Updated: 5 Feb 2002

A control for generating colour gradients

Joseph M. Newcomer

3.76

Week hours planning control
Updated: 7 Aug 2002

An article on making a week hours planning control

Mourad DEBBAH

3.67

CFunctionEdit - A custom control for n-tuple input v1.2

Updated: 18 Nov 2003

A custom control for n-tuple input.

Cagdas Calik

3.50

An MFC Calculator Custom Control with No Resource File Dependencies
Updated: 6 Aug 2004

A re-usable calculator custom control which works and looks like a hand held calculator, which can be used in any MFC application by simply adding a cpp and a h file to the project (no resource file dependencies).

peterboulton

3.46

CInputBox

Updated: 22 Jun 2004

A CDialog derived class that provides functionality similar to the VB InputBox function

Mustafa Demirhan

3.11

Integrated Properties View

Updated: 10 Mar 2004

An application integrated Properties View

Dan Bloomquist

2.81

CBTAngleWnd: A cool rotation angle custom control with full source code!
Updated: 28 Oct 2003

It implements the angle custom control, a circle with a line indicating a rotation angle. Give your application a professional look now!

ucc801

2.57

UMLEditor - revisiting the vector editor

Updated: 5 Jul 2006

An UML editor with code-generation capabilities derived from CDiagramEditor.

Johan Rosengren

4.87

TaskbarNotifier, a skinnable MSN Messenger-like popup in C# and now in VB.NET too

Updated: 31 Mar 2003

The TaskbarNotifier class allows to display an MSN Messenger-like animated popup with a skinned background

John O'Byrne

4.86

CSplashScreenEx : a non rectangular splash screen class with Alpha blending

Updated: 2 Oct 2002

CSplashScreenEx allows to display a non rectangular bitmap with informations about the init of your app

John O'Byrne

4.85

WndImage Control

Updated: 7 May 2002

An easy-to-use control to display bitmaps (stretch, scale, tile)

peterchen

4.85

Outlookbar-style menu interface
Updated: 23 Jul 2003

A control bar outlook-style that integrates with the standard menu command's framework.

Dheth

4.83

A Popup Progress Window

Updated: 22 Apr 2002

A popup window containing a progress control and cancel button - no resource file needed

Chris Maunder

4.82

CKCSideBannerWnd: An MFC Banner control that can add a professional looking feel to most windows...

Updated: 7 Nov 2003

A CWnd derived control that can attach itself to any window, without the programmer making provisions for it.

Peter Mares

4.82

MessageBox with a timeout for .NET
Updated: 13 Aug 2004

Just like MessageBox.Show but with an added timeout parameter

RodgerB

4.82

CSliderCtrlEx - A slider with background colors to indicate ranges
Updated: 25 Nov 2002

This slider allows colors/gradients to be used to indicate good, bad, or marginal ranges

Harold Bamford

4.81

XSudokuWnd - a control that implements the Sudoku puzzle

Updated: 19 Mar 2007

XSudokuWnd is an MFC control that implements a solver for the popular Sudoku puzzle, based on D.E. Knuth's Dancing Links algorithm. Example projects show how to use XSudokuWnd in dialog and SDI applications.

Hans Dietrich

4.79

Easy! Reports
Updated: 24 Nov 2001

A class for generating Business style reports

Vipul Lal

4.79

CheckerCtrl
Updated: 26 Mar 2001

A Microsoft scandisk like control (in terms of its UI) that lets you put a series of blocks on screen.

Mehdi Mousavi

4.78

CCylinderProgressControlST v1.0
Updated: 2 Jul 2003

A GDI+ cylinder progress control

Davide Calabro

4.76

CPianoCtrl - A Display Piano Control

Updated: 7 Mar 2003

An article about using the CPianoCtrl class

Leslie Sanford

4.76

Using the IE 5 built-in progress dialog
Updated: 7 Feb 2000

A wrapper class for the progress dialog provided by IE 5.

Michael Dunn

4.76

Magic Docking - VS.NET Style
Updated: 30 Sep 2002

Docking Windows mimicking VS.NET feature

Phil Wright

4.76

An Alternative Implementation of the NotifyIcon Class

Updated: 13 Apr 2002

A wrapper class for notification icons (tray icons) with support for balloon tips.

Joel Matthias

4.76

Handling HTML Element Events in CHtmlView and Reusing CDHtmlDialog Serial Class

Updated: 9 Jun 2005

The enhanced CHtmlView class handles the HTML element event and exchanges data in the view.

luo31

4.76

CWndSliderView - An animated child window manager
Updated: 12 Jan 2000

An article on using an Outlook style window slider control.

Christopher Brown

4.76

How to Clone/Serialize/Copy & Paste a Windows Forms Control
Updated: 6 Feb 2006

Clone/Serialize/Copy & Paste a Windows Forms control through serializing its properties.

lxwde

4.75

NotifyWindow: A different MSN Messenger style notification window
Updated: 3 Aug 2004

Another MSN Messenger-like notification window, this one does its own drawing

Robert Misiak

4.74

CSkinProgress

Updated: 12 Jul 2003

A bitmapped progress bar in a status bar with optional completion status message

Kochise

4.74

DHTML User Interface Library

Updated: 2 May 2002

Implement an advanced DHTML user interface in your own MFC applications

Ted Crow

4.74

CCalendarCtrl - A simple scrolling calendar class

Updated: 9 Nov 2006

CCalendarCtrl is a small CWnd-based class that implements a scrolling calendar, and keyboard/mouse support for intuitive navigation and cell selection. Multiselection is possible using Ctrl and Shift, and a cell can contain several items...

Frederic Rezeau

4.73

Adding a custom search feature to CHtmlViews

Updated: 23 Nov 2000

Could be used to create a Visual C++ like search combo for CHtmlViews...
Update: Now you can highlight all matching words!

Marc Richarme

4.72

A Better(?) (Hyper)Link Control

Updated: 22 Jan 2003

An article that describes yet another hyperlink control

James R. Twine

4.72

A Multiple Selection based Control Tracker
Updated: 20 Dec 2001

A CRectTracker derived class that is able to do much more

@deel@bbas

4.72

Bending the .NET PropertyGrid to Your Will
Updated: 20 Dec 2002

A set of classes to simplify using custom properties in the .NET PropertyGrid control.

Tony Allowatt

4.72

CDiagramEditor - DIY vector and dialog editor

Updated: 23 Jun 2006

A feature rich vector editor skeleton.

Johan Rosengren

4.71

Mouse progress control
Updated: 30 Mar 2006

A progressbar control that follows the mouse cursor using a system wide hook

Lars [Large] Werner

4.71

A Button Group Control

Updated: 13 May 2001

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

Andrew Peace

4.71

An Extended/Animated Header Control w/Design-time integration

Updated: 20 Jan 2007

Animated, docking header control

Mike Hankey

4.70

2D Multi-Parameter Pie Control
Updated: 8 Jan 2003

A simple 2D Pie Control

valgouss

4.70

Runtime Control Resizer
Updated: 19 Jan 2007

An unfinished class that allows for runtime resizing of controls.

Seth Rowe

4.70

Custom DataGrid with Progress Bar control
Updated: 26 Apr 2002

Shows how to create a custom control based on the DataGrid control with progress column

Pavel Sich

4.70

Progress Control with Text

Updated: 26 Feb 2007

A smooth progress control with text

Chris Maunder

4.69

Enhanced Progress Bar Control

Updated: 12 Jun 2002

An enhanced progress control that supports gradient shading, formatted text, animation, tooltips, shape, 'snake' and reverse modes, and vertical modes

Yury Goltsman

4.68

Add docking and floating support easely and quickly with DockExtender

Updated: 4 Jul 2007

DockExtender allows you to add docking / floating / resizing behaviour to any control on your win form with just a few lines of code, making it very easy for your application to support basic docking features.

Herre Kuijpers

4.68

A new progress bar for all occassions...

Updated: 5 May 2003

A CStatic derived Progress bar control that can indicate "busy states" effectively and double up as a good looking progress bar

Peter Mares

4.67

A .NET Progress Dialog

Updated: 27 Aug 2003

A progress dialog for asynchronous workers

Matthew Adams

4.67

Extending basic WinForms Controls and the DataGrid
Updated: 27 Jul 2005

.NET 1.1 - AutoComplete ComboBox, bindable CheckBox and DateTimePicker, ReadOnly simulator, extending the DataGrid for designer support of DataGridComboBoxColumn and more...

Noogen

4.67

All-in-one printing utility for user controls

Updated: 11 Jul 2007

Prints the content of user controls and provides printing settings and preview

Arjan Keene

4.67

Exposing Windows Forms Controls as ActiveX controls

Updated: 28 Aug 2001

This article describes how to build a Windows Forms control in C# and expose it as an ActiveX control

Morgan Skinner

4.66

Easily turn a ListView into a nicely printed report, complete with print preview

Updated: 24 Nov 2007

The ListViewPrinter class takes an existing ListView and effortlessly turns it into a pretty report.

.NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, C# 2.0, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate

Phillip Piper

4.66

Column Definition Control

Updated: 10 Jul 2002

Presents a control used to specify column locations in a text file to be imported into your application.

Andrew Peace, Cathy

4.65

Globalized property grid
Updated: 17 Apr 2002

This article provides a property grid with localized display names for properties by using .NET globalization and component model.

Gerd Klevesaat

4.65

Dynamically switchable multi-purpose control

Updated: 6 Mar 2002

Control which allows run-time switching between a number of control types, eg combo, edit etc

Paul S. Vickery

4.65

ResizeScrollbar - How to change width of built-in scroll bars
Updated: 8 Feb 2002

Changing scroll bar width for Windows controls like listbox

Hans Dietrich

4.64

A designable PropertyTree for VS.NET

Updated: 7 Mar 2003

A TabControl-like options dialog based on a TreeView

Russell Morris

4.64

Hyperlink control

Updated: 23 Mar 2000

A simple drop-in hyperlink control

Chris Maunder

4.63

Win32 Hyperlink Control
Updated: 25 Aug 2005

Introducing the modified worker object pattern by developing a hyperlink control without using the MFC.

Arinir

4.63

Transparent digital clock
Updated: 8 Apr 2003

A transparent digital clock program

manos_crete

4.63

Showing progress bar in a status bar pane
Updated: 21 Nov 1999

An easy way to add a progress control to a status bar

Chris Maunder

4.63

Adding XP Themes to Custom .NET Controls

Updated: 1 Sep 2003

Rendering your own theme parts with the Windows XP UxTheme API

Don Kackman

4.63

A Fine-looking Segmented LED Control

Updated: 20 Jul 2007

This article describes an approach to constructing a segmented LED displayer

Liu Xia

4.62

Round Slider Control
Updated: 17 Mar 2000

A round slider control to allow users to adjust an angle or similar values

Daniel Frey

4.61

A pager control wrapper class
Updated: 16 Dec 1999

This article presents a wrapper class for the pager control

Kirk Stowell

4.58

GridCtrl
Updated: 7 Jun 2005

This article describes GridCtrl that consists of common controls such as EditBox, ComboBox and Button. The GridCtrl helps you create, exchange and manage layouts.

Arshinkin Maxim

4.58

Simple Runtime Control Sizing and Dragging Class
Updated: 30 Sep 2003

Sample and brief description of simple class that enables sizing and dragging of controls on a form

Jim Korovessis

4.57

DDEListener Component (open your Document Files with Explorer)

Updated: 23 Oct 2002

Handles DDE_EXECUTE messages

Alexander Werner

4.57

OCX Snapshot
Updated: 10 Feb 2000

How to take a snapshot of an OCX without using HWNDs.

Russell Morris

4.55

Dynamic embossed text Progress control
Updated: 6 Oct 2002

A dynamic embossed text progress control that uses no resource file

John White

4.54

XHyperLink - yet another hyperlink control
Updated: 17 Oct 2003

XHyperLink is a simple drop-in hyperlink control with optional parent notification.

Hans Dietrich

4.53

PallaControls for Windows forms

Updated: 22 Aug 2003

Approximately 35 controls for Windows Forms. Some ideas for visual composition and classes of general use.

Palladino

4.52

A thermometer control

Updated: 9 Jul 2007

Creating an analog-style thermometer

Niel M.Thomas

4.52

CSplash - A Splash Window Class
Updated: 7 Jul 2004

This article describes creation of splash windows using Win32 APIs

abhinaba

4.52

Custom ComboBoxes with Advanced Drop-down Features
Updated: 23 Apr 2003

Contains several ComboBoxes which uses Windows themes and contains ComboBoxes with CheckBoxed lists and TreeViews

Alex Kucherenko

4.51

Passing an Array of Values to the Visual C++ MSChart OCX
Updated: 28 Nov 2001

A step by step guide to setting the values in the MSChart control.

JL Colson

4.50

Windows Forms, Custom Controls Part 1: Mastering DragDrop
Updated: 17 Aug 2003

The first in a series of articles, this one covering DragDrop

Ian Giffen

4.49

MyXAML--XAML-style gui generator (added styles)

Updated: 10 Mar 2004

Generate controls, set property values, and wire up event handlers at runtime from an XML definition.

Marc Clifton

4.49

An MFC Curve Control
Updated: 19 Dec 2004

An article on a curve control.

Sunjoy Chen

4.48

Automatic sorted list

Updated: 22 Apr 2003

Here is an advanced ArrayList which uses IComparable or IComparer interface to sort its objects and which provides some other useful functions such as duplicates limitation.

Eric Marchesin

4.47

Gradient Progress Control
Updated: 8 Jun 2000

Subclasses the standard CProgressCtrl to allow for gradient fills. Supports vertical progress controls as well.

Matt Weagle

4.47

Owner drawn spin button control with autodisabling arrow buttons.
Updated: 25 Jan 2000

A spin button whose arrows automatically disable themselves when they are at their maximum or minimum value.

Oleg Lobach

4.46

Custom SSIS Control Flow Component

Updated: 22 Jun 2007

Create a custom control flow component for SQLServer 2005 Integration Service

Ray Gorski

4.43

Double Subclassing (Runtime Form Editor)
Updated: 22 May 2003

An article that describes a way to subclass controls that are already subclassed (double), The example includes a runtime form editor

Ralph Varjabedian

4.42

Time to Complete Progress Control
Updated: 1 Dec 2000

A progress control that tells the user how long an operation has left to complete

Craig Henderson

4.42

An XML- and State Machine-based Design of a WinForms Control
Updated: 2 Dec 2002

Usage of state machine and comprehensive XML description of control helps its user to considerably simplify control handling code.

Igor Ladnik

4.42

Creating a Time Picker with no Seconds Field
Updated: 30 Nov 1999

Michael Dunn

4.41

Undo History Popup
Updated: 26 Dec 2003

Pop-up control that displays undo/redo history similar to MS Office

Damir Valiulin

4.41

Y(et)A(nother)TabControl: A Custom Tab Control With Owner Drawn Tabs

Updated: 17 Feb 2006

A foray into the world of creating composite custom controls with design-time support.

Curtis S.

4.41

Control Data Support
Updated: 19 Feb 2003

A class to enable data to be set on a control

Paul S. Vickery

4.40

Drawing trackers, moving and resizing the objects using double buffering.
Updated: 6 Jun 2003

Drawing, Positioning and resizing the Boxes with double buffering

khurram7t8

4.40

Pluggable Event Handler

Updated: 10 Jun 2000

A plug in class that allows you to intercept and handle messages for any window class

William E. Kempf

4.39

DirectUI Window as in XP system folders

Updated: 2 Aug 2004

A control to show a list of possible tasks just as in XP.

Alexander Bischofberger

4.39

Component and ISupportInitialize: A Quick Guide
Updated: 10 Feb 2005

A quick guide about Components and ISupportInitialize intended to help intermediate programmers use the Visual Studio designer more effectively.

opedog

4.39

Extended .NET Controls
Updated: 4 Nov 2005

A .NET library containing highly customizable controls.

Johnny Hooyberghs

4.39

CTaskProgressDialog: A dialog indicating operation progress for multiple tasks

Updated: 18 Mar 2002

Progress indicator for multi-tasks in a project

yellowine

4.37

Colored/Blinking Controls and Dialogs with any Font

Updated: 25 Aug 2000

The simplest way to change color, font or set blinking mode for any standard control

Yury Goltsman

4.37

Word Control for .NET
Updated: 29 Jan 2003

Writing a control to use MS-Word in your own Application like a windows-form.

Matthias Hänel

4.37

A VS.Net-like ToolBox
Updated: 20 Sep 2002

This is a Visual Studio .NET like ToolBox control with animation and drag and drop support.

Iulian Serban

4.35

ActionLists for Windows.Forms
Updated: 3 Mar 2002

Implementation of Delphi's ActionList for Windows.Forms

Serge Weinstock

4.34

Simple Label Gradient

Updated: 21 Mar 2003

Simple Label Gradient Control

Dion Heskett

4.33

Improved mouse click handling for the slider control
Updated: 27 Dec 2002

Class that provides better mouse click handling for the standard windows slider control

ed welch

4.33

A useful set of separators

Updated: 16 Dec 2003

Some dialog boxes separators that replace group boxes

Nicolas Bonamy

4.33

Auto sizing DataGrid
Updated: 13 Nov 2003

A DataGrid that is able to resize its last column.

Wouter van Vugt

4.33

Using IDesigner and CodeDomSerializer to create read-only runtime properties

Updated: 3 Feb 2005

An approach to implementing a Component that has read-only run time properties that are read/write at design time.

Tim Almdal

4.33

Customize a panel with Autoscroll property
Updated: 3 May 2004

Use all events of scrollbars in a panel with Autoscroll=true

Manalee software

4.32

Custom 32-bit RGBA Color MFC Control
Updated: 1 May 2003

A custom MFC control that allows the user to manipulate 32-bit RGBA colour attributes.

Colin Vella

4.32

Advanced DataGrid sizing

Updated: 5 Dec 2003

This article implements an important new feature for the WinForms DataGrid, automatic row height sizing! Also shown is column hiding and column auto sizing.

Wouter van Vugt

4.31

A simple use of the Multimedia Timer
Updated: 12 Mar 2003

Demonstrates the simple use of a multimedia timer in user classes

Nicolas Etienne

4.31

Adobe ActiveX Control with MFC
Updated: 9 Feb 2005

How to use the Adobe Acrobat 7 Reader ActiveX control inside a C++ application.

rocky_pulley

4.31

MFC ActiveX Digital Clock
Updated: 13 Dec 2002

A digital clock ActiveX control.

Nikolai Serdiuk

4.30

Magic WizardControl / WizardDialog
Updated: 30 Sep 2002

Create Wizards quickly and easily

Phil Wright

4.30

How to skin scrollbars for Panels, in C#
Updated: 13 Jul 2006

This article shows you how to create a skinnable scrollbar as a user control, and use it in a Panel to replace the ugly Windows scrollbar.

Greg Ellis

4.30

Another Spectrum Board
Updated: 17 Oct 2003

MFC Spectrum Board control

Danang Suharno Ngadinegaran

4.29

Creating a professional looking GDI+ drawn custom control
Updated: 3 May 2004

Shows how to create a custom scrolling label control with GDI+ and proper double buffering

jconwell

4.29

Transparent drop shadow in C# (GDI+)

Updated: 3 Jul 2007

How to create a transparent drop shadow effect for a panel control

Mark de Haan

4.29

Globalized Property Grid - Revisited
Updated: 15 Jun 2003

This article introduces localization of category names in a globalized property grid control and considers inheritance issues.

Gerd Klevesaat

4.26

Double List Picker

Updated: 17 Jul 2003

Control to allow users to pick items from a list, and add to another list

Paul S. Vickery

4.26

A Generic Well Control (ColorPicker, ArrowPicker and more)
Updated: 25 Nov 2002

Provides and demonstrates the use of a generic "well" control that can be used to facilitate color-pickers, hash-style selectors amongst others

Tao Zhu

4.26

Implementing compound shadows with CExtWndShadow
Updated: 16 Jul 2004

A CExtWndShadow class, which should enable you to easily draw compound shadows anywhere you want.

Dmitriy Yakovlev

4.26

CXWndAnimate: an alternative to CAnimateCtrl
Updated: 28 Jul 2000

An animation control that uses a bitmap imagelist instead of an AVI file

xicoloko

4.25

Catching the 'Enter' Key in windows and controls
Updated: 13 Jan 2000

How to handle the WM_GETDLGCODE message in order to catch special key strokes.

Randy More

4.23

Text Alignment Control for .NET
Updated: 16 Sep 2004

An article on creating Text Alignment Control for .net

norm .net

4.22

Transparent group box
Updated: 2 Feb 2000

A very simple group box replacement to enhance your user interface

Jens Schacherl

4.20

Simple way to expose a .NET WinForm control as an ActiveX control in any HTML page
Updated: 8 Sep 2003

This article shows how to take a .NET (C#) WinForm control and use it as an ActiveX control in any HTML web page.

Raul Alonzo

4.19

Title Bar Replacement Class With Cool Features

Updated: 12 Oct 2006

Nice looking title bar for your applications with autohide and ghost-drag capabilities.

JJMatthews

4.19

Status Progress Feedback
Updated: 7 Jul 2004

A status control that can provide feedback to a user on the progress of one or many operations

Roland Trainor

4.18

Resizing Controls at run time
Updated: 1 Dec 2000

A method to allow the user to visually resize and position any control at run time.

Amit Nabarro

4.17

CPushPinButton v1.13 - A Push Pin Implementation
Updated: 4 Mar 2000

A Freeware MFC PushPin button class.

PJ Naughter

4.14

A class to combine Slider Control and Progress Bar windows
Updated: 8 Jan 2004

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

Cem KARACA

4.12

Runtime Editable Control
Updated: 6 Dec 2004

Inheritable (super class) UserForm that enables runtime moving of controls (editing).

Miljenko Cvjetko

4.12

Resizing Data Grid Columns To Content
Updated: 18 Mar 2003

Method that resizes all the columns of a specified Data Grid object

Tom Archer - MSFT

4.11

File Drag and Drop Encapsulated in a C++ Class
Updated: 2 Jul 2002

Using an iterator to encapsulate DragFileQuery for file drag and drop.

Richard Chambers

4.11

Part I: Unifying Web and Windows Form design and layout

Updated: 10 Jul 2002

Part I of a multipart series, it illustrates how to unify GUI design for both Web Forms and Windows Forms, so that a single GUI specification can be rendered in both technologies.

Marc Clifton

4.10

Hovering Control Template
Updated: 27 Oct 2002

A template class to add hovering support to any control.

Gilad Novik

4.10

System Hotkey Component
Updated: 17 Oct 2002

handling a System-wide Hotkey

Alexander Werner

4.10

Scroll the contents in windows and Multi-Undo and Redo in controls
Updated: 13 May 2005

Scroll the contents in windows and multi-undo and redo in controls.

Iven Xu

4.09

Pie Progress Control
Updated: 23 Aug 2000

A progress control with a difference

norm .net

4.08

CProgressCtrlST 1.1
Updated: 4 Sep 2002

A bitmapped progress bar control

Davide Calabro

4.06

Part II: Web & Window Form Unification: Synchronous And Asynchronous Event Handling For Controls Created At Runtime

Updated: 14 Jul 2002

This is the second part of a multipart article on unifying web and window form application development. This part demonstrates synchronous and asynchronous event handling of GUI control events, abstracting the implementation of web/window forms to be technology independant.

Marc Clifton

4.06

The Spring Computing Windows Controls
Updated: 28 Sep 2001

A set of Win32 Windows controls.

Maxime Labelle

4.05

DragData Demo
Updated: 6 Sep 2004

How to pass custom objects in a drag-and-drop operation.

David Veeneman

4.04

EAN-13 BarCode ActiveX Control Drawer

Updated: 25 Jun 2007

An activeX control that draws any EAN-13 barcode

ahmadaa

4.04

CDoubleScrollBar: Scrollbars based on double values
Updated: 16 Mar 2002

A simple plug-in replacement for CScrollBar, which provides direct access to scrolling with double values.

DavyBoy

4.00

COscilloscopeCtrl
Updated: 15 Mar 2003

An oscilloscope control with multiple band(frequency) support

Tanzim Husain

4.00

Wrapping Win32 Controls in .NET - Horizontal and Vertical Rules

Updated: 14 Oct 2003

This article discusses the development of two simple classes that implement horizontal and vertical controls for Windows Forms development by encapsulating the native Win32 vertical and horizontal rule controls.

Stephen Quattlebaum

4.00

XML TreeView Control

Updated: 20 Oct 2005

A control to display XML-data and/or make it editable, avoiding the unmanaged Internet Explorer plug-in.

Thomas Siepe

4.00

Yet Another VS.NET-like ToolBox

Updated: 4 Aug 2004

This article proposes another VS.NET-like ToolBox control based on the work of Iulian Serban

Giorgio Santini

3.97

Scrollable and RatioStretch PictureBox
Updated: 27 Apr 2003

A scrollable and ratio-stretch picture box control

Gil Klod

3.96

GraphicsBuffer Class - Buffering of Dynamic Visual States for Controls
Updated: 3 Aug 2004

This article discusses the usage of a custom class that caches custom images. The class, GraphicsBuffer, is best used to cache visual states for controls without concern for control flicker and unnecessary processor usage.

Rhy Mednick

3.95

FormHeader control
Updated: 28 May 2004

Custom FormHeader Control

TeeBee303

3.95

KeyState Struct Objectifies KeyState Property

Updated: 15 May 2003

A KeyState struct to objectify the KeyState property of DragEventArgs.

Jim Stewart

3.94

CMapPin - A Map Pin Implementation
Updated: 4 Mar 2000

A Freeware MFC class to implement Map pins.

PJ Naughter

3.93

BusyBar control

Updated: 9 Jun 2004

Custom Control to display busyness

TeeBee303

3.91

Application settings based on public class properties

Updated: 12 Oct 2003

Application settings based on public class properties, dynamically filled into a UI

Chris Richner

3.89

Clickable Splitter
Updated: 6 Nov 2002

A custom control in C# based on the standard splitter showing embedded resources.

Carel

3.88

Visual Inheritance with Visual C#
Updated: 1 Jun 2001

Visual Inheritance allows you to inherit visual elements in your derived GUI classes.

M.A.K.Jeelani

3.87

XP Style CColorControl class with themed gradient buttons

Updated: 27 Sep 2004

Set of control derived classes for colorful presentation.

Anders Sandberg

3.86

Adding "Balloon" style to ToolTip provider
Updated: 29 Apr 2005

Adding "Balloon" style to ToolTip provider.

Mihail Stefanov

3.85

CAnimateCtrl Example
Updated: 16 Dec 1999

Demonstrates the use of the windows animation control

Kirk Stowell

3.84

A Property Table Editor
Updated: 12 Aug 2004

An article showing a property table editor like VC7.0's property table.

skybirdcao

3.84

Smart Control Designer

Updated: 1 Dec 2007

The article describes the work principles and ways of using SmartControlDesigner, which supports the custom control design in designtime

Alexandr Golovanov

3.83

Displaying a Title and an Icon in a ToolTip window
Updated: 2 Dec 2005

How to display a title and an icon in a ToolTip window.

Yokel Sun

3.82

GridPanel

Updated: 23 May 2003

Property-Grid layout control

Gytis Jakutonis

3.81

Adding designable borders to user controls
Updated: 9 Dec 2003

A tutorial on adding design-time enabled borders to user controls. Covers topics including atributes, interop, and custom overrides

Jason Dorie

3.78

Gradient Label Control For WinForms
Updated: 11 May 2003

Create background gradient color bar

nhg2k

3.75

Rollout panel
Updated: 15 Oct 2002

This article explains how to create rollout panel (like in 3dsmax)

M A V

3.73

Simplest Checkable Groupbox Class

Updated: 5 Dec 2003

Lots of time we want to enable/disable a set of controls in our dialog. Checkable Groupbox can even assemble a radio-style group!

Ziming

3.72

LeerTools: A suite of controls, dialogs and other useful methods
Updated: 31 Aug 2004

Comprehensive library of controls, dialogs and useful methods

leerjet

3.71

Adding mouse functionality to any control
Updated: 20 Jan 2002

An article on adding mouse based functionality to any CWnd derived control

Fred Ackers

3.70

CMapEditorCtrl

Updated: 12 Dec 2003

This class provides MFC Control functionality to CMapEditor, and supports isometric view

eugi

3.70

An ActiveX Control for Poker games

Updated: 15 Jul 2002

With this control, you can easily build up your own Poker games.

Mingming Lu

3.64

The Windows Thumbnail Control
Updated: 8 Feb 2000

An application demonstrating the windows Thumbnail control

Wooseok Seo

3.63

An example of a non progress bar
Updated: 21 Feb 2005

This shows how to use a "working" progress bar like Windows XP does.

GMazzo65

3.63

Round / Spherical Progress Control
Updated: 26 May 2003

A progress control that can display progress as depth, area or volume of a sphere.

Iain Clarke

3.63

Custom Controls Library (MaskEdit, Statusbar with Progress Panel, and more)
Updated: 1 Jun 2004

Custom Controls Library (MaskEdit, Statusbar with Progress Panel, and more).

Moditha(KK)

3.58

A Ruler Control
Updated: 8 Feb 2000

A simple ruler control to allow users to set margins or indents

Michael Ang

3.57

Color Controls

Updated: 15 Mar 2002

Adding color to MFC controls

Paul J. Weiss

3.56

A general purpose ruler control

Updated: 14 May 2002

This is a demostration of a general purpose ruler control in use. It consist of 2 apps and the ActiveX control itself. Control code is included.

mystro_AKA_kokie

3.52

A very simple BrowseForFolder class
Updated: 3 Dec 2002

A very simple class to include the browse for folder window into your C# project

Francesco Natali

3.48

Formatting the Datarow based on a single cell value and Custom Table Styles.

Updated: 29 Apr 2003

An article that demonstrates row formatting and adding custom styles to the designer.

Sameer Khan

3.47

A Sizing/Moving widget
Updated: 2 Feb 2000

A class that provides the ability to move and size controls at run-time

Andrew JM Hall

3.45

Visual Studio .NET style status bar
Updated: 23 Feb 2004

An article on an owner drawn flicker free status bar

Zhang Songling

3.45

Bringing Back FlowLayout to WinForms Controls
Updated: 8 Oct 2004

This article describes how to create a Panel that allows FlowLayout positioning for WinForms.

Matt Dockins

3.45

Making Graphical effect from Progress Bar
Updated: 21 Jun 2004

Usage of Progress Bar control.

Abdul Hye

3.44

Designing Resizable Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET
Updated: 3 Sep 2001

Using the Splitter and Panel controls, Anchor and Dock control properties in Windows Forms.

Alex Fr

3.44

An auto-collection information control group
Updated: 27 Dec 2002

A set of classes for batch inputting, validating, and packing user's data.

Johnson Zhou

3.43

C# Rect Tracker

Updated: 16 Nov 2004

C# Rect Tracker (like CRectTracker on C++).

nashcontrol

3.40

Simple steps to enable Hotkey and ShortcutInput user control
Updated: 22 Jan 2004

Follow these simple steps to enable a hotkey for your Windows Form. Use this user control to allow the user to specify their desired hotkey.

Ashley van Gerven

3.39

Office XP Style, a new one

Updated: 11 May 2004

A new Office XP style, borders, grippers, buttons, etc.

MaTrIX2k2

3.38

StarControl

Updated: 7 Feb 2004

An article about a star control like that included in the media library in Media Player.

ieaeitsch

3.38

Another wizard for .NET using tab control
Updated: 22 Dec 2002

Another wizard for .NET using tab control

nimbus3d

3.38

Banner Control
Updated: 8 Mar 2004

About banner-like control in applications

Sergey Nurmagambetov

3.31

Loading AVI Resources from Shell32.dll file

Updated: 9 Apr 2003

This program loads AVI animation clips from shell32.dll file and minimizes the executable file size (like for SFX).

Yogesh M Joshi.

3.29

Encapsulating interacting controls
Updated: 1 Sep 2003

How to get controls to interact with each other without help from their parent dialog box.

Chris Hills

3.25

Checkable Detail List View
Updated: 4 Apr 2003

ListView which supports checkable subitems and returns the clicked subitem

Tomislav Petrovic [per0]

3.23

A general purpose base class for TextBox filtering
Updated: 20 Mar 2007

This article describes a base class, FilterTextBox, that can be used to implement flexible filtering for a TextBox control.

Eric Lynch

3.22

ScrollableControl with Scroll Events
Updated: 18 Jun 2004

A ScrollableControl extension to generate horizontal and vertical scroll events.

Martin Randall

3.19

How To Add ToolTips To Controls On A Windows Form

Updated: 2 Feb 2001

Tips on how to add tooltips to controls on windows form in the .NET framework

Naveen K Kohli

3.10

How to Modify/Remove the context menu shown by an IE WebBrowser Control
Updated: 17 Jul 2002

Here is an easy solution for hiding/Replacing the right click menu on a Web Browser window.

Cheeran Santhosh

3.07

A marquee control in C#
Updated: 20 Feb 2003

A marquee control written in C#

Josh Smith

3.07

CCurveDlg - Curve Interpolation
Updated: 16 Sep 2001

A Photoshop-like curve dialog.

Janssens Johan

3.05

Working with Anchoring and Docking Properties
Updated: 2 May 2002

In this article let's take an expedition through travel around how Anchoring, Docking Properties of Controls can be used in Windows Forms

Arun Ganesh

3.04

FlowPanel
Updated: 18 May 2003

Horizontal-vertical layout control

Gytis Jakutonis

3.00

WinForm Style Sheet
Updated: 23 Jun 2004

An article on setting styles for Windows applications.

Ali Zolghadri

2.89

File and directory picker control
Updated: 12 Mar 2003

A file and directory picker control

Lee Hamel

2.87

New Pie progress control with 3D look

Updated: 27 Oct 2002

Now you can have a pie control replacement for a progress bar, in 3D look.

Ashok Jaiswal

2.86

Multi Clock
Updated: 1 Jul 2004

An article on mutliple clock displays

Roger65

2.67

Microsoft Outlook Style Headers
Updated: 10 Dec 2002

Creating Panel Effect Label like Outlook

CodeSlinger

2.65

Simple zoom functionality for custom controls

Updated: 13 Apr 2006

How to add simple zoom functionality for custom controls.

star_blazer

2.41

A C# Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab control.
Updated: 22 Apr 2001

A C# tab control that mimics the Visual Studio.Net, Excel, and InterDev tab styles.

Italo Silveira

2.34

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Header Controls
Updated: 23 Sep 2004

A header control that mimics outlook 2003 headers and sub headers

Carl Weis

2.33

Another control group for HTML as user interface
Updated: 28 Dec 2002

To process user input from a HTML interface in windows using MFC

Johnson Zhou

2.19

Using System Dialogs and link labels
Updated: 9 Aug 2002

This article describes the use of fontdialog and colordialog controls and illustrates the use of linklabel and helpprovider.

Ragavendran Vaidhyanadhan

1.75

Adding Hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control
Updated: 4 Jun 2000

A new class that adds hyperlink support to the MFC Grid Control

Chris Maunder, Fred Ackers

4.90

Using comboboxes in the MFC Grid Control

Updated: 30 Jul 2000

Explains how to use comboboxes to edit cells in the MFC Grid Control

Chris Maunder

4.87

MFC Grid control 2.26

Updated: 15 Dec 2005

A fully featured MFC grid control for displaying tabular data. The grid is a custom control derived from CWnd

Chris Maunder

4.85

Using the Grid Control in a Doc/View framework

Updated: 30 Aug 2000

A simple tutorial that demonstrates how to use the grid control in a doc/view application.

Chris Maunder

4.73

A fully customizable PropertyGrid
Updated: 25 May 2007

A grid to display and edit properties of objects (as in Visual Studio)

Nicolas Bonamy

4.72

Binding MFC Grid to database.

Updated: 9 Oct 2002

This version of MFC grid works with database.

Mazdak

4.70

Tree control and Buttons for MFC Grid control

Updated: 26 Apr 2001

A set of classes derived from CGridCtrl that embed a tree control, button controls, and virtual cells within the grid

Ken Bertelson

4.66

Date Time Picker control for the MFC Grid Control
Updated: 31 May 2001

A DateTime control for editing date or time values inplace in the MFC Grid Control

Eugen Podsypalnikov

4.64

The ALXGrid Control Library.

Updated: 11 Nov 2002

The ALXGrid Control Library is a set of classes for management of data as a table.

Alexey

4.59

Integrating Undo/Redo support with MFC Grid

Updated: 6 Mar 2002

Shows how to integrate simple and easy Undo/Redo (by Keith Rule) into an application using the MFC Grid control (by Chris Maunder).

Phil J Pearson

4.53

Grid Control Showing Association
Updated: 15 Nov 2000

Grid control with vertical column headers.

Daniel Larocque

4.53

Adding "Merge cells" support to the MFC GridControl

Updated: 30 Dec 2002

Adding "Merge cells" support to the MFC GridControl.

Huang Wei

4.51

Virtual Grid Control 1.04

Updated: 13 Feb 2003

CWnd-derived virtual mode-only grid with header as separate logical object.

Y.Z.

4.50

MFC DataGrid
Updated: 25 Feb 2002

CDataGrid which was derived from CGridCtrl and used ADO for access to database.

Kirill Panov

4.47

This may be a Grid Control but, call me Array

Updated: 5 Aug 2004

A control that implements an array of items

asnaghi

4.44

Using the Flexgrid in VC++

Updated: 31 Jul 2002

This article demonstrates the usage of the MS-Flexgrid using MFC

VGirish

4.11

Drag & Drop in FlexGrid Using Arbitrary Formats
Updated: 3 Jun 2003

Implementing drag and rop within MS Flexgrid control using any format

Ferdie

4.05

CGridCellNumeric - A numeric cell class for the MFC Grid

Updated: 23 Sep 2004

A locale aware, editable, self validating numeric cell class for the MFC Grid. Configurable for integers, floating point, or currencies.

PJ Arends

4.05

Progress Cell for Grid Control.
Updated: 11 May 2004

A new cell progress-bar-like type for Chris Maunder's Grid Control.

Iain Clarke

3.93

CGridCtrl 1.5

Updated: 18 Jun 2004

This article presents a tiny grid control derived from the standard list control

Marius Negrutiu

3.74

Very useful class to display SQL SELECT results

Updated: 4 Nov 2003

Very useful class to display SQL SELECT results.

Vitali Halershtein

3.61

Using RichEdit control in the MFC Grid Control
Updated: 5 Jan 2004

Explains how to use RichEdit Control to edit cells in the MFC Grid Control

Atlence

3.57

Full Arabic User Interface GridCtrl
Updated: 2 Feb 2003

GridCtrl which works from right to left to serve Arabic language.

Tarek Ahmed Abdel Rahmane

3.28

DataGrid Control

Updated: 5 Aug 2005

An article on a grid control built without MFC.

darkoman

2.98

Blinking Cells For Chris Maunder's Grid Control
Updated: 13 May 2005

Create blinking cells for Chris Maunder's grid control.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer

2.35

Using the WebBrowser control, simplified.

Updated: 12 Apr 2003

The SimpleBrowser class makes using the WebBrowser control easier in your MFC applications.

Gary R. Wheeler

4.78

WebBrowser Control: How to Print Preview

Updated: 23 Mar 2005

Insert the WebBrowser control into a dialog box, and add print preview functionality to it by implementing the IOleCommandTarget interface.

Frank W. Wu

4.59

How to customize the context menus of a WebBrowser control via the IDocHostUIHandler interface.

Updated: 28 Oct 2003

This article describes how we can customize the contextual menus of the WebBrowser control, by implementing the IDocHostUIHandler.

Jim Xochellis

4.58

Programmatically scrolling WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++
Updated: 23 Aug 2001

Article describes how to obtain IHTML interfaces to prrogrammatically scroll WebBrowser control from Visual C/C++.

Valters Vingolds

4.54

Processing HTML Forms From a CHtmlView
Updated: 16 Jul 2000

A simple method to processing HTML forms From a CHtmlView

Ted Crow

4.31

HOWTO: Use the undocumented HTMLLITE.DLL component
Updated: 9 Aug 2003

There is an undocumented DLL library included with VS.NET called HTMLLITE...

Nathan Evans

4.26

Customize Web Browser ActiveX and change its inbuilt settings
Updated: 20 Sep 2004

This article demonstrates how to change Web Browser ActiveX inbuilt settings. In this article, two major tasks are implemented: hide default scroll and disable right click.

Sumit Kapoor

4.00

HTMLCtrl with dynamic HTML content

Updated: 28 Mar 2003

How to dynamically change the contents of a HTML page inside a dialog and be able to handle HTML events.

Joan Murt

3.85

Set DropDown Width of HTML Combo Boxes Using Handles To HTML Objects
Updated: 18 Jul 2004

How to get the Handle to any HTML object and do things like setting the dropdown width of HTML Combo Boxes.

Butch from Brooklyn

2.97

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

Updated: 24 Jan 2002

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

jack Mesic

4.73

A sophisticated color picker control
Updated: 12 Dec 1999

A replacement color picker control allowing you full visual control over RGB and HSB selections

Rajiv Ramachandran

4.72

MS Outlook style miniature calendar control

Updated: 29 Jan 2002

A custom CWnd derived control which simulates the functionality of the MS Outlook mini calendar control.

Matt Gullett

4.70

A color picker button
Updated: 5 Sep 2000

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

James White

4.61

ChoiceListButton Control

Updated: 22 Feb 2000

A dropdown menu button with checkbox menu items

Christian S Andersen

4.53

Color components editor control
Updated: 3 Apr 2002

This control lets you edit RGB or HSL components of a color, like in Paint Shop Pro.

The Aircom team

4.52

CColorChooser an IDE style Color Picker
Updated: 5 Oct 2001

CColorChooser an IDE style Color Picker

norm .net

4.50

xgui - a set of Photoshop-like color picker controls
Updated: 3 Apr 2002

xgui is a user-controls library, including several user-interface controls inspired by the great Adobe Photoshop

Bobi B.

4.39

BCGDateTime controls version 1.0
Updated: 27 Jan 2000

A set of four date/time ActiveX controls (Date/Time Picker, Month Calendar, Duration Control, Time Intervals Control)

Stas Levin

4.27

Hot List Control - Another Kind of List Control
Updated: 14 May 2000

A control for selecting items from a list, with tool tips and mouse tracking

Robert Pittenger

4.17

IG MultiLanguage Toolkit
Updated: 10 Sep 2002

A multilanguage control.

Truong Pham Dang Khoa

4.13

CoolCalendar a perpetual calendar control
Updated: 15 Feb 2001

An ownderdrawn perpetual calendar control

norm .net

3.96

Color Dialog Control Set
Updated: 17 Apr 2002

Three controls let you create your own colro dialog

Alex Kwok

3.71

Office 2000 style colour picker By Shailesh Litake
Updated: 14 May 2002

office style control

shailesh litake

2.93

An RGB chooser dialog
Updated: 2 Oct 2000

A simple color chooser dialog that uses slifer controls to allow the user to combine different RGB values

Masoud Samimi

1.79

An Alpha Channel Composited Windows Form with Designer Support
Updated: 16 Jun 2007

An alpha channel composited form for image based Window frames

Jeff J Anderson

4.88

Themed Windows XP style Explorer Bar

Updated: 6 Oct 2005

A fully customizable Windows XP style Explorer Bar that supports Windows XP themes and animated expand/collapse with transparency.

Mathew Hall

4.88

A control to display pie charts with highly customizable formatting

Updated: 25 Aug 2006

A control to display pie charts with highly customizable formatting.

mattsj1984

4.85

IconPanel Custom Control
Updated: 22 Sep 2004

An expanding/collapsing 'Task Tray' ala Windows XP and Longhorn

Tom Guinther

4.81

Designer centric Wizard control

Updated: 16 Dec 2004

A Wizard control designed for design time development.

Al Gardner

4.80

Yet Another Analog Clock
Updated: 8 Jun 2005

Yet another analog clock control in C#, but this one is different.

Obaid ur Rehman

4.79

FrontPage-Style Table Picker Using GDI+
Updated: 28 Oct 2004

Create a FrontPage-Style table picker in C# using simple GDI+ rendering techniques.

Jon Davis

4.79

A fast and performing gauge
Updated: 8 Feb 2007

This article shows you how to write a performing control using .NET 2.0 and GDI+.

A.J.Bauer

4.78

A panel control with positionable captions and icon for Windows Forms

Updated: 26 Jun 2006

A panel control with caption support, which can also dock child controls properly.

Prasad Khandekar

4.77

An Implementation of System Monitor

Updated: 13 Sep 2007

How to retrieve system data and draw data in light-weight custom chart controls

Zuoliu Ding

4.77

High Speed, Feature Rich, and Easy-To-Use Graphs and Charts

Updated: 29 Nov 2006

High speed graphs and charts that are also very easy to configure and use. As easy as inserting a simple chart in MS Excel!

Anup. V

4.76

Expression Plotter Control
Updated: 19 Sep 2007

A control that plots any number and any combination of mathematical expressions in rectangular or polar mode

Syed Mehroz Alam

4.76

A Rotator Control for WinForms

Updated: 12 Sep 2006

A rotator control for Windows Forms.

Stefan Bocutiu

4.75

C# File Browser

Updated: 21 Aug 2006

A file browser written in C#, very much like Windows Explorer.

Steven Roebert

4.74

PerformanceChart / ToolStripPerformanceChart controls with multiple time series

Updated: 20 Aug 2007

A simple performance chart control with multiple series

Igor Velikorossov

4.74

GradientPanel and AlphaLabel: an introduction to building controls
Updated: 6 Sep 2006

This article is meant for beginner programmers who are interested in building their own custom controls. As an example a GradientPanel control is implemented.

Herre Kuijpers

4.72

C# Popup Calculator, Button, and Text Control

Updated: 29 May 2007

A popup calculator form and corresponding button and text controls.

beep

4.71

Fully functional Asynchronous Mailslot Control in C#
Updated: 17 Jun 2007

An asynchronous C# control implementation of Win32 Mailslot communication.

Jim Weiler

4.71

Shape Control for .NET
Updated: 1 Jun 2005

Implementing shape control that supports transparency and custom design-time editors.

Yang Kok Wah

4.70

C2DPushGraph: A Push Graph Control
Updated: 4 Dec 2006

A push graph control similiar to the graph control located in Microsoft's Task Manager.

Stuart Konen

4.70

The most complete C# Webbrowser wrapper control

Updated: 28 May 2007

A C# (.NET 2.0) control which creates, hosts, and offers advanced customization such as dragdrop, file downloads, HTTP/S header viewing, and much more.

mehrcpp

4.70

ActionList for .NET 2.0

Updated: 30 Apr 2006

An implementation of Borland's ActionList.

Cradle77

4.69

DockManager Control

Updated: 3 Aug 2006

DockManager control is designed to achieve docking capability for MDI forms. It can be used to develop applications with same look and feel as Visual Studio .NET.

Weifen Luo

4.69

Navigational history (go back/forward) for WinForms controls
Updated: 28 Apr 2006

A generic class and two ToolStripSplitButtons provide navigational history, like in web browsers.

OrlandoCurioso

4.69

The Grouper - A Custom Groupbox Control

Updated: 23 Jan 2006

The Grouper is a special groupbox control that is rounded and fully customizable. The control can paint borders, drop shadows, and has other features like gradient and solid backgrounds, custom text, and custom icons.

VectorX

4.67

Adding and using 32 bit alphablended images and icons to the imagelist control
Updated: 23 Dec 2004

An article on adding alphablended images to an imagelist control and using them on components.

Narb M

4.67

Simple pop-up control

Updated: 24 Jul 2007

How to create a custom pop-up control in C#.

Lukasz Swiatkowski

4.66

Autoscaling Graph Control

Updated: 10 May 2006

Learn how to create a graph that can automatically scale itself!

thebeekeeper

4.66

Universal Remote Control with PDA
Updated: 10 May 2007

Developing a “Universal Remote Control for the PDA”

betz231087

4.65

BrowseField and BrowseList - file and folder browser/lister

Updated: 31 Jan 2005

File and folder browser/lister controls

Todd Davis

4.64

GroupBox with an icon: the ImageGroupBox control
Updated: 15 Mar 2006

This article presents an extended GroupBox that displays an icon in the header.

bsargos

4.64

Balloon ToolTip Control
Updated: 8 Dec 2005

A balloon tooltip control implementing the IExtender interface.

Noor Abuhamdeh

4.64

IPToolbox: A VS2005-like Toolbox

Updated: 25 May 2007

A Visual Studio 2005-like ToolBox control which supports almost all features of the original: drag'n'drop, renaming, hiding tabs, items, and disabling items

I@n

4.63

Image Slider .NET component - flicker free browsing of pictures
Updated: 24 Aug 2004

Image Slider is a runtime .NET component that could be used for quick browsing of thumbnail images in Multimedia projects

Angel_Komarov

4.63

Ruler Control

Updated: 8 Aug 2006

Ruler control in C#

Bill Seddon

4.61

Advanced UxTheme wrapper

Updated: 13 Jul 2007

How to use, and understand, visual styles for custom controls drawn with a C# wrapper (uxtheme.dll)

Guillaume Leparmentier

4.60

BevelLine Control with Designer Selection Rules
Updated: 16 Jun 2005

A bevel line control with Visual Studio Designer SelectionRule support.

DXNuk

4.60

An EAN13 Code Control

Updated: 24 May 2005

A Windows control that draws EAN13 Codes.

m@u

4.59

Collapsible Splitter control in C#

Updated: 27 Aug 2003

A Mozilla-style collapsing splitter control in C#

Furty

4.58

Resource Editor .NET
Updated: 18 Nov 2002

A utility to easily refresh embedded graphic resources in a .NET assembly.

Bill Sayles

4.57

.NET Animation Control

Updated: 9 Feb 2006

A managed wrapper for the animation common control.

Martin Cook

4.57

Customized Text - Orientated Controls in C# - Part I (Label Control)
Updated: 27 Sep 2004

Label which can display text in any orientation and shape.

Chester Ragel

4.57

Animating Windows Forms

Updated: 15 May 2006

A component to make Windows Forms controls more dynamic by adding animation capabilities.

Robert Rohde

4.57

Extended web browser control for .NET 1.0/1.1
Updated: 12 Dec 2004

Provides enhanced functionality for the Windows inbuilt web browser (ActiveX) control.

marschills

4.56

A scrollable, zoomable, and scalable picture box

Updated: 13 Nov 2006

A scrollable, zoomable, and scalable picture box with context menu.

Bingzhe Quan

4.53

Full-featured XP Style Collapsible Panel

Updated: 2 Nov 2004

Source and demo application for a full-featured XP style collapsible panel.

Tom Guinther

4.53

XP Style Collapsible GroupBox

Updated: 31 Jan 2006

This article describes an XP style collapsible GroupBox.

jordanhammond

4.53

A Status Bar Text Provider for Menu Items and Form Controls

Updated: 7 Jul 2006

A status bar text provider for menu items and form controls in Windows Forms applications similar to the feature found in MFC and Microsoft Access applications.

Eric Woodruff

4.52

NotifyIconChart
Updated: 1 Sep 2002

A .NET component that creates pie and bar charts in the system tray

Maciej Pirog

4.52

Mouse Events
Updated: 2 Jun 2005

A helper class to expand on the mouse events provided by the Control class.

Marc Clifton

4.51

Many in one: ImageButton + MultiSelect TabControl with Drag&Drop; and Button's face paint extender

Updated: 9 Feb 2005

Small Windows.Forms Controls Library (ImageButton, MultiSelect TabPage Control with Drag&Drop; support).

Boris Bord

4.50

Label with Divider

Updated: 15 Nov 2004

A simple divider with text.

Julijan Sribar

4.50

Cristi Potlog's Chart Control for .NET

Updated: 25 Jul 2005

This article introduces a sample chart control for Windows Forms.

Cristi Potlog

4.50

C# Windows Forms ImageMap Control
Updated: 1 Sep 2002

An ImageMap control for use in Windows Forms applications

Ryan LaNeve

4.47

LinkTextBox - a quick solution for entering emails and hyperlinks

Updated: 11 Apr 2005

A guide to creating a cool looking LinkTextBox control that handles email and other hyperlinks just like MS Outlook.

David Vidmar

4.47

Windows XP style Collapsible Panel Bar

Updated: 21 Dec 2002

Extended System.Windows.Forms.Panel classes for a collapsible panel and a panel bar to contain them, in a Windows XP style.

Derek Lakin

4.45

DataPlotter - linear or logarithmic display of 2D data
Updated: 13 Oct 2003

The DataPlotter is a .NET control for graphical display of 2D data. For both the X and Y axis a linear or logarithmic (any base) scaling can be selected.

Hans-Jürgen Schmidt

4.45

C# 2.0 Graphing Control
Updated: 16 Dec 2006

Generic multi-curve graph control

David Hovel

4.45

C# 3D Charting

Updated: 24 May 2006

A simple article for easy charting.

Vincent DUVERNET (Nolmë Informatique)

4.42

Numeric Validator for Web Text Controls
Updated: 22 Sep 2004

Bulding a numeric validator for WebControls containing a Text property.

Horia Tudosie

4.40

A .NET Wizard control
Updated: 25 Apr 2003

A .NET Wizard control for the VS.IDE and client apps

Alex Kucherenko

4.40

The new RibbonForm, RibbonRoundButton, and FastMenu
Updated: 3 Jun 2007

A free version of RibbonForm, RibbonRoundButton, and RibbonFastMenu.

Juan Pablo G.C.

4.40

ShellControl - A console emulation control

Updated: 26 Feb 2005

A .NET Control that emulates a command line UI

S. Senthil Kumar

4.40

ExControls Version 1.0

Updated: 27 Oct 2006

Extending some C# controls to introudce round labels, text boxes, comboboxes etc.

Hesham Desouky

4.39

Making Office2007 panels with fading and opacity
Updated: 19 Mar 2007

An easy way to add Office 2007 panels style

Juan Pablo G.C.

4.38

Table Size Selector Control
Updated: 4 Feb 2003

Dropdown Control that mimics the Microsoft Word Table Selector dropdown.

King Rufus

4.36

Touchscreen Keyboard UserControl

Updated: 6 Apr 2006

A basic keyboard usercontrol suitable for touchscreen displays.

FoxholeWilly

4.35

AnimatedIcon Control

Updated: 30 Jun 2004

AnimatedIcon Control plays an animation as a sequence of images stored in the ImageList. The article demonstrates how to show an animated icon on the StatusBar.

Eugene Pankov

4.35

QuickGraph: A 100% C# graph library with Graphviz Support.

Updated: 23 Apr 2007

A generic directed graph library with a Graphviz Web Control Bonus!

Jonathan de Halleux

4.32

The Multimedia Timer for the .NET Framework

Updated: 1 Mar 2006

A .NET class encapsulating the Win32 multimedia timer.

Leslie Sanford

4.32

Save and restore Form position and layout with this component

Updated: 26 Feb 2004

A component that allows to save and restore layout of any Form without coding.

Igor Gribanov

4.31

Animated Counter Control

Updated: 1 Sep 2003

An animated counter control with different themes

Adrian Tosca

4.29

Custom TextBox that Delays the TextChanged Event
Updated: 17 Aug 2007

Textbox that inherits the base textbox control that delays the text changed event

cdgwinn

4.29

Wave or Lake effect control
Updated: 12 Jun 2003

Implementation of wave or lake effect in C#

Bill Seddon

4.28

C# Header control
Updated: 21 Jun 2004

.NET wrapper of the system Header control.

Sergei_VP

4.27

TimeSlider - A time-based TrackBar
Updated: 6 Apr 2006

A custom trackbar control using dates instead of integer values.

Tom Holt

4.27

Barcode .NET Control
Updated: 10 May 2005

A Code 39 barcode control with printing and saving support.

rocky_pulley

4.26

C# grid control
Updated: 18 Nov 2003

A C# grid control.

linjie

4.23

Dartboard User Control in C#
Updated: 27 Oct 2003

Shows a dartboard on which you can click and which returns the score thrown

O c t a v i e

4.22

A variation on the default TrackBar

Updated: 18 Aug 2004

Multi-Color and multi-directional TrackBar.

Guinness4Strength

4.20

EnumGroupBox - a semi-automatic GroupBox control

Updated: 3 May 2006

A GroupBox automatically filled using Enums as templates.

Peter Schlang

4.20

Nice Line - A simple shaded line
Updated: 22 Aug 2003

A simple line control with multiple purposes

Adrian Tosca

4.19

Docking control with tear-away frame tool windows
Updated: 7 Jul 2003

A container control that tears away into a tool window when dragged

Iridar

4.19

Just another C# Collapsing Group Control

Updated: 31 May 2004

An article on building an XP-style collapsing group box in C# with transparency.

Daren May

4.18

Expandable panel on all four directions

Updated: 6 Oct 2006

An expandable panel that you can set to expand/collapse bottom to top, top to bottom, left to right, or right to left.

Stefan Bocutiu

4.18

State Controller Component for Windows Data Entry Forms
Updated: 18 Sep 2006

A custom control that simplifies programming Windows data entry forms.

Sergey O

4.17

Creating an Internet Explorer Favorites Control

Updated: 17 Aug 2006

How to create an Internet Explorer favorites control.

Jeff Bramwell

4.17

Canvas implementation for C#

Updated: 22 Mar 2004

Design and implementation of canvas in C#

Eduard Baranovsky

4.16

InfoBarLite Control

Updated: 19 Sep 2002

This article shows how to create a Windows.Forms control by using C#.

Muhammed Inam

4.16

Realtime Chart and Graph in One

Updated: 16 May 2007

A basic Chart and Graph control.

Roy Reznik

4.15

Header-only GroupBox
Updated: 22 Sep 2001

Illustrates a simple subclass of a Windows.Forms.GroupBox control to paint only the header

Matthew Adams

4.14

A Time-Of-Day Picker control
Updated: 10 Dec 2002

A simple control that allows the user to pick time periods in the day

ClearlyDotNet

4.12

Audio Mixing Console Fader/Slider Control
Updated: 26 May 2004

A control to replicate behaviour and appearance of an audio mixing console fader/slider.

Mr Smiley

4.12

C# Star Rating Control
Updated: 21 Dec 2004

A C# star rating control.

Andrey Butov

4.09

Layout Table Control like HTML table, tr and td tags
Updated: 29 Feb 2004

Table Control to polish your forms layout.

markusfi

4.04

Hosting EXE Applications in a WinForm project
Updated: 21 Dec 2004

A custom control to launch and embed an EXE into a WinForm based application.

Jay Nelson

4.03

How to build a Clock control

Updated: 10 Sep 2002

This is a quick guide on how to create your own customizable clock control

Iulian Serban

4.00

Drop Shadow Label
Updated: 19 Aug 2005

Add some flair to your labels.

Michael Ceranski

4.00

Simple FilmStrip Control
Updated: 31 Jul 2006

An article on writing your own simple FilmStrip control

rahulparthe

4.00

Image Magnifier Control
Updated: 11 Oct 2006

ImageMagnifier - a simple control for image zooming.

Bashir Magomedov

4.00

NavigationTree Control
Updated: 28 Mar 2006

A control providing a different kind of navigation in your app.

Jürgen Müller (jmse)

3.96

Photoshop-Like Gradient Editor

Updated: 17 Feb 2006

A Photoshop-like gradient builder control for paint applications.

sameeraperera

3.95

Balloon Windows for .NET
Updated: 3 Aug 2002

A class that allows for balloon shaped forms in .NET

Rama Krishna Vavilala

3.94

Create animation in dotNet with alpha-blending PNG images by calling API

Updated: 6 Jul 2007

This article shows you the advantage of PNG images with alpha-blending feature in creating animation and demonstates how to use PNG images in Framework.NET application by calling API

nguyenthanhtungtinbk

3.88

Building a BallonToolTip provider in C#

Updated: 4 Mar 2004

Shows how to create a ToolTip provider that supports Balloon Tooltips, including issues related to creating extender properties and using the NativeWindow class.

wilsone8

3.87

A C# water effect picture control
Updated: 30 Aug 2002

A C# implementation of the popular water surface effect.

Christian Tratz

3.86

Collapsible Group Box

Updated: 6 Jan 2006

An introduction to the ExpandingPanel and CollapsibleGroupBox controls.

jeffb42

3.86

DropDownPanel: a complete Expandable Panel

Updated: 4 Aug 2005

Useful and simple, it can be used for options pages in your apps.

Dario Solera

3.86

Scrolling Credits Control
Updated: 15 Jun 2005

A scrolling text and image control with smooth flicker free movement and mouse interference feature.

DXNuk

3.82

StylesSheetManager - A 'CSS like component' for WinForms

Updated: 25 Oct 2006

StylesSheetManager is a 'CSS like component' for Windows Forms applications.

Sylvain BLANCHARD

3.80

SimpleLine line and box graphics controls
Updated: 9 May 2005

A line and container box control that support gradients

Paul Brower

3.79

A Piano Key Control in C#
Updated: 23 Feb 2004

A Piano Key Control for the .NET Framework

Leslie Sanford

3.77

Building a Graph control in 7 easy steps.
Updated: 13 Mar 2003

This article shows you how to build a simple user control by creating a graph control in 7 easy steps.

Harshawardhan Desai

3.73

Add-on class to process XML using XPathNavigator into Lithium Tree Control
Updated: 15 Apr 2005

This class will take any valid XML and parse out the nodes with or without the attributes into a Lithium Tree Layout control for viewing.

OmegaMan

3.73

Seti@Home 3D progress bar
Updated: 3 Apr 2003

A C# implementation of the Seti@Home 3D progress bar using GDI+

Jon Newman

3.73

A rotating gauge

Updated: 11 May 2005

An article on a custom control in the form of a rotating gauge.

Member 1702012

3.72

A thread-safe ToolStripStatusLabel control
Updated: 6 Jul 2007

This article demonstrates how to extend a ToolStripStatusLabel so that it can be updated from another thread

orouit

3.71

Simple WebControl to display Unicode tables
Updated: 21 Sep 2004

Whenever you need a Unicode character, drop this control on a form.

Horia Tudosie

3.65

Old Fashioned Analog Meter Control

Updated: 13 May 2005

This is an article on creating a control derived from the System.Windows.Form.Control class.

seagrrl

3.63

Magic Library Docking Manager Designer

Updated: 3 Nov 2003

Provides docking support without writing one line of code.

Chris Richner

3.59

GripPanel
Updated: 19 Oct 2003

A WinForms Panel that shows a size grip when docked at the bottom of a form.

SimmoTech

3.54

Office 2003 Line Control

Updated: 22 Aug 2003

A GroupBox-like single line similar to that found in Office 2003.

Rob Tomson

3.53

Graphi - The Line Graph Component
Updated: 2 Jun 2004

Displays a line graph for statistics using Enum.

rajeshvasan

3.45

Drop-dead easy layout management

Updated: 3 Sep 2006

Flexible control repositioning and resizing with an easy-to-use layout manager.

Ravi Bhavnani, Eddie Zhou

3.44

Vertical Text
Updated: 20 Jan 2005

A C# class to draw vertical text strings

Gary Perkin

3.41

A CountDownTimer inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Timer
Updated: 29 Oct 2003

A timer that will only run the number of times you specifed.

stotti_no1

3.40

A Simple Paintbrush Color Picker
Updated: 24 Jan 2005

A simple color picker like paintbrush color picker.

Truong Pham Dang Khoa

3.40

A simple histogram displaying control
Updated: 31 Oct 2005

A histogram control for displaying your data.

Alexandru Ghiondea

3.40

Gradient Panel Custom Control
Updated: 7 Dec 2006

This article describes a quick and simple approach to creating a gradient panel custom control.

salysle

3.38

ImageBox Control with Zoom/Pan Capability

Updated: 7 Dec 2005

How to create a simple control that extends the capability of an ImageBox by adding zoom and pan (scroll).

smallwisdom

3.38

Click to Drag, Zoom, and Copy - PictureBox

Updated: 23 Jan 2007

A picture box with built-in click to drag, zoom, and copy.

gbarcalow

3.38

PictureBox with zooming and scrolling
Updated: 12 Apr 2005

Article on creating a user defined PictureBox control.

Alexander Kloep

3.37

Analog Clock

Updated: 24 Jun 2005

An analog clock control that can raise alarm at a given time and that can also set a count down alarm.

Nidhi S

3.33

PictureBoxGradient UserControl

Updated: 2 Nov 2002

Extended PictureBox with thin gradient progress line, out of the box straight forward Windows XP Look.

Chris Richner

3.23

DragExtender - An extenderprovider for dragging functionality
Updated: 28 Oct 2004

An extenderprovider for dragging functionality.

Guido_d

3.23

Creating some cool buttons and groupboxes

Updated: 3 Sep 2004

Using GDI+ functions to add cool stuff.

Shouvik

3.18

Tic-Tac-Toe Windows Control
Updated: 3 Aug 2002

Working through the issues of encapsulating functionality in a Windows Control using the simple program Tic-Tac-Toe.

Grant Richard

3.14

Resharper Style ToDo Indicator Control
Updated: 4 Jan 2006

This control provides a Resharper style Todo Indicator control.

Steve Hawkes

3.14

Controls of an arbitrary shape
Updated: 6 Jul 2006

The article describes the use and the principle of operation of control of an arbitrary shape.

Alexandr Golovanov

3.13

Ruler Application
Updated: 15 Sep 2004

Ruler tool application.

Eugene Lepekhin

3.08

.NET LCD MatrixControl and GDI+
Updated: 20 Jun 2004

Implementation of a LCD User Control in .NET using C#.

Mikhail Cholokhov

3.08

A Joystick Control
Updated: 31 May 2005

A joystick control using a simplified polar coordinate system to return an orientation and magnitude, and a custom Vehicle UserControl with an Offset method that uses the said coordinate system.

Member 1702012

3.08

MoyStick, a Joystick Control
Updated: 3 Jun 2005

An eight direction joystick control.

yob25

3.00

Star rating control with no messy GDI bits!
Updated: 8 Jan 2006

A non GDI version of a star rating control.

sgtobin

3.00

Google-like PageLister control which helps to organize paging representation of your data.
Updated: 16 Feb 2004

Google-like PageLister control which helps to organize paging representation of your data.

Artem Kliatchkine

2.94

Horizonal and Vertical Rules using System.Drawing Graphics Object
Updated: 29 Oct 2003

This article discusses the implemenation of horizontal and vertical rules for Windows Forms by utilizing the System.Drawing Graphics object.

lagay

2.92

Flash LED Control
Updated: 27 Sep 2004

Fancy control simulating a LED light by rewriting the Paint method. A good set of properties allows all kind of flash effects.

Horia Tudosie

2.91

Drawing trackers And Getting the Selections in your PictureBox.
Updated: 19 Apr 2005

This is a class to help you handle the selections in the PictureBox.

virdust2003

2.78

FakeFlash Title

Updated: 29 Jan 2004

Animated title component.

hxxbin

2.72

Hexadecimal Color Mixer
Updated: 16 Jan 2006

This shows how to make a control to mix a color and then export it to the HTML hexadecimal format.

James Gupta

2.71

The Inticator Control
Updated: 19 Feb 2004

A Task Manager Memory Usage-alike control.

q123456789

2.63

PagerPanel
Updated: 27 Jul 2005

Simple data paging control for Windows Forms.

machocr

2.45

Collapsible Panel
Updated: 12 Jan 2005

A collapsible panel user control.

Sufian Mehmood Sheikh

2.43

Button Array Control
Updated: 6 Apr 2006

A dynamic button array control.

Hotlinux

2.43

A Charting Custom Control using Microsoft OWC

Updated: 16 Sep 2004

This is a .NET custom control for web-based charting using Office Web Component technology.

Catiger

2.33

Layout Persistence for your Forms including all of their subcontrols

Updated: 27 Jan 2005

This article describes how you can use a tiny control to ensure layout persistence for you form.

SebDau

2.24

GLUI-style Spinner
Updated: 20 Jun 2005

Creating an OpenGL GLUI-style spinner.

bowlermonk

2.20

UrduTextBox Control for C#
Updated: 14 Jun 2007

Shows how you can customize a textbox control to accept right-to-left languages like Urdu

mobeen211

2.09

ResultSetTextBox

Updated: 31 May 2005

Displays data contained in a DataSet into a RichEdit control.

Alexander German

2.05

.NET Shape Control
Updated: 3 Aug 2005

Drawing shapes in GDI+.

Sautin.net

1.95

TomOMeter

Updated: 26 May 2005

A meter control.

yob25

1.83

Using a drop-down list to dynamically load user controls in a repeater
Updated: 9 May 2007

Changing the visibility of user controls based on drop-down values in a repeater

neuralSea8

1.80

Data Navigation ToolBar written entirelly in C# for ADO.NET
Updated: 29 Mar 2003

An exellent start point to a data control bar for ADO.NET.

VoidMainVoid

1.71

Mobile Phone - like keyboard control in C#
Updated: 19 Feb 2005

How do you want to enter text with an IR-Remote? Well, this is the solution...

turndevil

1.63

User Controls for Addresses - Change Management
Updated: 19 Oct 2003

Input addresses, contacts to SQL Server table and provides change management from there.

Rod DeValcourt

1.45

Windows Forms – ToolStrip and ImageList
Updated: 1 Sep 2006

Loading strips of images into ImageList, and changing images on the toolstrip buttons based on their state.

Mahesh Srinivasan

1.43

A sparse array input control

Updated: 10 Feb 2005

An article on a simple control to enter sparse values or ranges of values in an array.

je_gonzalez

1.40

C# Line Control with Rotate Option
Updated: 14 May 2007

An article on line control in .NET

mamirbalouch

1.36

Customizing the Appearance of CSliderCtrl Using Custom Draw
Updated: 7 Dec 2004

How to use custom draw to change the appearance of a Track Bar control and CSliderCtrl.

Mike O'Neill

4.80

Rotary Fader
Updated: 4 Aug 2002

A CSliderCtrl using 3 bitmaps for scale, knob and dot

Frank Luchs

4.75

CKnobControlST v1.0
Updated: 25 Jun 2003

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Davide Calabro

4.67

CNumSpinCtrl - a simple numeric spin control

Updated: 12 Jul 2002

Numeric spin control for working with real numbers

Damir Valiulin

4.63

CRangeSlider - a Ctrl for Selecting a Range or Interval

Updated: 9 Apr 2002

Have you ever searched for a nice way to select a subrange from an interval? This may be the solution for you.

Jens Scheidtmann

4.56

CPercentageCtrl

Updated: 21 Mar 2002

An easy control to display and to modify percentages

Paolo Vernazza

4.34

Gamma correction slider

Updated: 4 Nov 2002

Slider control class to perform gamma correction.

DCUtility

4.24

Skin based slider control

Updated: 18 Jun 2002

Dress your slider control smart

Ashok Jaiswal

4.08

Transparent CSliderCtrl Class

Updated: 15 Nov 2002

A MFC Transparent CSliderCtrl class

Nic Wilson

4.05

On The Fly Table Creator
Updated: 10 Oct 2000

An MS-Word like drop down window for creating tables

Rajiv Ramachandran

4.00

ATL Rotary Control
Updated: 26 Jan 2000

A rotary knob similar to that used in the Windows 2000 CD Player

norm .net

3.84

Skin based slider control Mark 2

Updated: 13 Sep 2002

Here's a recoding of aeropriest's skinned slide control.

Jon

3.73

Knob-Slider Control

Updated: 9 Oct 2003

A custom user control that implements a knob slider.

Stewenson

3.64

Multislider ActiveX Control
Updated: 21 Mar 2002

This ActiveX control presents three sliding range selectors of decreasing resolution

Vadim Gorodnitsky

3.25

A cool bitmap slider like Media Player's...
Updated: 24 Jul 2004

A cool bitmap slider like Windows Media Player's.

jackey_xp

3.23

XSuperTooltip - Office 2007 Super Tooltip class
Updated: 31 Jul 2006

XSuperTooltip implements class for displaying super tooltips, which were introduced in Office 2007. The demo download includes super tooltip code generator, that makes it easy to add super tooltips to your application.

Hans Dietrich

4.82

Word-style Tooltips for Scrollbars
Updated: 6 Jul 2004

You've seen the tooltip windows that Word displays when you drag the scrollbar. Now you can add them to your own applications.

Chris Hills

4.72

CXInfoTip - Information Tooltip
Updated: 22 Sep 2001

CXInfoTip is an enhanced information tooltip control.

Mark Bozeman

4.59

ParamTooltip
Updated: 12 Nov 2004

Implements a Tooltip control like that displayed with the Intellisense technology.

_goa

4.58

Multiline Titletips
Updated: 6 Jan 2000

A class that allows you to display data for a control that is otherwise not large enough to display the full text

Chris Maunder, Mark Findlay

4.51

RichText Tool-tip control

Updated: 22 Mar 2005

A tool-tip control with support for rich-text formatting.

Paul S. Vickery

4.50

Custom ToolTips for MFC Projects
Updated: 12 Apr 2007

Put anything you want in a ToolTip

kenearle

4.44

A multiline extended tooltip control
Updated: 8 Dec 1999

A drop-in multiline extendable tooltip control

Chris Maunder

4.38

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example.
Updated: 9 Feb 2004

A nice multiline ToolTipCtrl example looking like the one available in Delphi.

TomKat

3.97

Display ToolTip in any place on the screen

Updated: 2 Sep 2002

This article shows how to display tooltips at any location on the screen

Zarembo Maxim

3.71

VB style tool tip control similar to IntelliSense ToolTip
Updated: 17 Jul 2003

Tool tip control similar to Visual Basic IntelliSense tool tip

Alex Hazanov

3.58

Developing Windows Forms Control using MFC and Managed C++

Updated: 13 Mar 2002

Demonstrates different ways to move MFC based controls to .NET Windows Forms

Rama Krishna Vavilala

4.71

The MFC unclickable button ported to Managed C++
Updated: 24 May 2002

This article presents a port of the MFC Trick button to .NET using Managed C++ and Windows Forms

Chris Maunder, Nishant Sivakumar

4.50

Hosting of MFC MDI Applications from Within WinForms and WPF Applications

Updated: 21 Oct 2007

Demonstrates the concept of how to build an old MFC application in a .NET application, to replace the MFC MDI Framework with the modern WinForms or the WPF Framework and to integrate MFC Views and Dialogs in it.

Alexey Shalnov

4.50

Ramakrishna's Code Project Screen Saver

Updated: 20 May 2002

This is a screen saver written in C# and Managed C++ to display data from The Code Project web site

Rama Krishna Vavilala

4.33

Using WinForms controls in an MFC dialog
Updated: 20 Dec 2005

This article is a simple introduction to using the CWinFormsControl MFC class to put a Windows Forms control on an MFC dialog.

Nishant Sivakumar

4.28

Creating an OpenGL view on a Windows Form
Updated: 20 Oct 2006

How to create an OpenGL view on a Windows Form.

Benjamin Wootton

4.28

Windows Explorer style ghost drag image in a C# application

Updated: 22 Sep 2006

Utilizing IDragSourceHelper and IDropTargetHelper interfaces in a C# application via a managed C++ library.

X3m

4.26

SelectionForm
Updated: 26 Jan 2006

Using a class derived from System::Windows::Forms::Form to enable region selection of a form.

Jan Kuiken

4.19

Using the Windows Forms 2.0 MenuStrip and ToolStrip controls to give your MFC applications a new look and feel

Updated: 21 Feb 2006

This article demonstrates how to use the Windows Forms 2.0 MenuStrip and ToolStrip controls in an MFC SDI application, using C++/CLI, to get the Office 2003 style menu and toolbar

Nishant Sivakumar

4.17

Managed C++ and Windows Forms
Updated: 26 Oct 2001

An introduction to Windows Forms using Managed C++

Nishant Sivakumar

4.04

How to have an Auto-Completing ComboBox in .NET
Updated: 3 Jun 2002

Shows how to derive a class from ComboBox and add an Auto-Complete feature to it. The example uses Managed C++.

Nishant Sivakumar

4.00

Simple MDI application using Managed c++ classes.
Updated: 28 Sep 2002

An article to explain how to write simple MDI application using managed c++ classes.