I'm interested if I still should use WTL to write Windows applications? I really like how it's written but does anyone know if it is still maintained? (Maybe there is a port that someone maintains ...

I am very interested in how modern Windows software is written in C++ nowadays. I asked my friend who had worked on Windows software and he told that last things he worked with were MFC and then WT...

I'm doing some programming in Win32 + WTL, and I'm confused with the available types of errors. In general, I want to check for an error, and feed it to AtlGetErrorDescription (which calls FormatM...

I am trying to get the message loop from a ATL::CAppModule in my project, there seems to be none, so: I've tried defining CAppModule, with extern CAppModule _Module; in "stdafx.h" and CAppModule ...

I know "WTL builds on ATL", but what does that mean in practical terms? Is ATL a subset of WTL in terms of features? (i.e. are ALL features in ATL also present in WTL?) I notice Wikipedia states A...

My program is a chromeless window and I want to move the window when user drag any part of my dialog. Once WM_SYSCOMMAND is used, all subsequent mouse events are lost. First I wrote a program to c...

I've downloaded the WTL 8.0 package and come to find the scripts to install App Wizards don't support VS 2010. Does anyone know of updates scripts to support installation in VS 2010? Thank you! ...

I have a VS2008 C++ application for Windows XP SP3 developed using WTL 8.1. My application contains a tab control that flickers when the application border is resized. My window hierarchy looks li...

I start using the visual studio c++ express 2008 at home but there is no ATL in it. How can I add ATL to visual studio c++ express 2008?

I am in the process of learning C++ and came across an article on the MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd861344.aspx In the first code example the one line of code which my que...

I'm just starting up a new ATL/WTL project and I was wondering if the global _Module variable is still required? Back a few years when I started working with WTL it was required (at least for ATL...

I'm trying to find a simple way to change the colour of the text and background in listview and treeview controls in WTL or plain Win32 code. I really don't want to have to implement full owner dr...