I'm adding properties to an object of type CMFCPropertyGridCtrl like this: myPropertyListCtrl.AddProperty( new CMFCPropertyGridProperty( _T("Name"), foo.GetName()) ); The result is that only ...

How do I force a refresh the caption of a CDockablePane in the MFC feature pack? I'm working with the tabbed visual studio style example, and I want to change the captions for the tabs. These see...

Create a standard App with ribbon, then add this to the CMainFrame::InitializeRibbon() at the appropriate place. // Create panel CMFCRibbonPanel* pMyPanel = pCategory->AddPanel(L"Test", m_Pane...

I have a menu button inside a CMFCToolbar and I would like to replace the bitmap of the button each time a different entry is selected in the menu as each entry has its own icon. I succeed in chan...

I have been using WPF for some time now and I am trying to reproduce some of the nifty UI features of their office suite. Although very easy in WPF, I am wondering how it could be done using MFC fe...

I would like to know if it is possible to create a CImageList with alpha blending transparency. Sample code that creates a CImageList with ugly transparency (no alpha blending): CGdiPlusBitmapResou...

I can't seem to get a CMFCButton to be displayed in Vista style in a dialog box application. I'm using VS2008 with MFC Feature Pack. Here are some steps to reproduce my problem: Create a new MFC...

Imagine I want to create an application which is very similar to MS Word 2007, using C++ in VS2008 and the MFC Feature Pack. For the ribbon, there are 3 options available to me: Use the rib...

There are three places where menus show up in the new MFC functionality (Feature Pack): In menu bars (CMFCMenuBar) In popup menus (CMFCPopupMenu) In the 'dropdown menu' version of CMFCButton I ...

If you create a new MFC application (with MFC Feature Pack), and using all the defaults, click Finish. It creates an MDI application with the new "Tabbed Documents" style. I think these are gre...

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has ribbon menu support. Is it possible to make use of that in an existing MFC application that was not created with a ribbon menu?

I am using the MFC Feature Pack and I have some buttons on a ribbon bar, instances of CMFCRibbonButton. The problem is that I would like to enable and disable some of them in certain conditions, bu...