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Toolbars & Docking Windows - Colour Selection Controls			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Bitmap ToolBar Updated: 25 Apr 2002   This is my attempt to create a simple toolbar class that allows to set a bitmap in the backgroud of a toolbar VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nicolas Gazelle	2.53
Toolbars & Docking Windows - Docking Windows			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
CSizingControlBar - a resizable control bar Updated: 15 Aug 2000   DevStudio-like docking window VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Cristi Posea	4.76
Docking Toolbars in Plain C Updated: 4 May 2005   How to create docking toolbars/windows in plain C (no MFC, ATL, COM, nor WTL). C, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Jeff Glatt	4.71
Views in a Sizeable Docking Control Bar (CSizingControlBar) Updated: 14 Mar 2000   A fairly simple way to incoporate views into sizing control bars VC6, NT4, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Rob Finch	4.22
Docking CSizingControlBar objects inside ActiveX containers Updated: 14 Jun 2001   A solution that allows you to dock Cristi Posea's Docking Window class inside ActiveX controls. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Greg Winkler	4.22
Sizing TabControlBar Updated: 7 Feb 2000   Creates a dockable and resizable control bar. VC6, NT4, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Dirk Clemens	4.08
MFC Docking Framework Updated: 12 Oct 2007   An easy to use MFC Docking framework and more... It also shows an applicable method to mix up WTL and MFC. VC7.1, VC8.0, VS.NET2003, VS2005, Windows, MFC, WTL, Dev, Beginner	Quynh Nguyen	3.94
Automatic resizing controls Updated: 27 Jan 2005   Mechanism to automatically dock/anchor your controls in a window or dialog. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS.NET2003, TabletPC, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	drice	3.90
Visual Studio IDE like dock container - Unedited Updated: 11 May 2008   Free windows dock container C#, Windows, Intermediate	cromul	3.63
Collapsible, resizable and dockable XP style control bar Updated: 22 Sep 2003   Collapsible, resizable and dockable XP style control bar VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nicolas Gazelle	3.05
Toolbars & Docking Windows - General			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
A Professional Ribbon you will use - Unedited Updated: 10 Nov 2008   A serious project on an Office-like Ribbon control Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C#, WinForms, Advanced	Jose M. Menendez Poó	4.87
XP style Explorer Bar (Win32/MFC) Updated: 4 Mar 2004   Implementation of a shellstyle.dll aware XP Windows Explorer Bar VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ingo A. Kubbilun	4.73
Generating inactive/disabled images for toolbar Updated: 18 May 2003   Provides an extensible class for drawing disabled and inactive toolbar button images. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Member 307612	4.70
MS Office-like TaskPane Control Updated: 24 Apr 2007   A .NET TaskPane control, with full design-time support. .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, C# 2.0, VB 8.0, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Patrick Etc.	4.64
Pinnable ControlBar Updated: 4 Dec 2003   This article is based on Cristi Posea's CSizeControlBar VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	ziran lin	4.59
A dockable, pinnable and skinnable OutlookBar Updated: 31 May 2005   This article is based on Ziran Lin 's Pinnable ControlBar. VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Tony. Smith	4.58
Using Custom Controls in a Dialog Bar Updated: 9 Nov 2007   How to implement owner drawn or subclassed controls in a Dialog Bar VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Douglas R. Keesler	4.53
Toolbars with Spinners & Sliders Updated: 26 Oct 2000   How to create toolbars with spinners and/or sliders VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Masoud Samimi	4.39
Tooltips for Toolbars in Non-CFrameWnd Windows Updated: 20 May 2003   Explains how to add tool tips for toolbars attached to CDialog or CView descentants. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	G. Steudtel	4.29
A Property Sheet in a Docking Toolbar Updated: 26 Nov 2004   Explains how to put a CPropertySheet into a CControlBar. VC7.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Bill Heitler	3.86
Switchboard User Interface Updated: 6 Jan 2004   Switchboard User Interface for hierarchical data. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	amkarkha	3.81
Adding Text to a Docking Toolbar Updated: 16 May 2001   This article demonstrates an easy way to add text to a docking tool bar VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Zahirul Haque	3.63
A TXPBAR with GDI+ for MFC Updated: 24 Jun 2008   A XP bar with GDI+ for MFC, like the Apple dockbar. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, C++, MFC, GDI+, Dev, Design, Advanced	skinui	3.22
A raw toolbar for Dialog and Property page with plenty nice styles (version 1.00) - Unedited Updated: 23 Aug 2006   A raw toolbar for Dialog and Property page with plenty nice styles C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	includeh10	2.97
Painting of CToolbar's parent window (AfxControlBar). - Unedited Updated: 27 Mar 2008   Background painting of CToolbar's parent window (AfxControlBar). VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, WinXP, Vista, C++, C, Windows, MFC	Paresh Chitte	2.26
Using Toolbar on a Dialog Based Application - Unedited Updated: 30 Mar 2008   This Article will put together the information on how to use a toolbar on a Dialog VC7.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Anup Daware	2.14
Simple Dockable Form With VB.Net - Unedited Updated: 10 Sep 2008   Create Simple Dockable Form Control NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, TabletPC, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, VB 8.0, VB 9.0, .NET 3.5, VS2008, C#, VB, Windows, Win32, Visual Studio, GDI, GDI+, Architect, Dev, COM, COM+, Design, Office, Intermediate, Advanced	rio_p	2.09
Toolbar, that changes the icon by clicking a button - Unedited Updated: 8 May 2004   This class allows your toolbar to change the buttonicons by clicking them VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kevin Stumpf	1.68
Easy Tabbed Mdi Interface Using the ToolStrip - Unedited Updated: 12 May 2008   Just drop an MdiTabStrip on your Mdi container form, and you have a Tabbed Mdi interface .NET 2.0, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, Windows, .NET, Architect, Dev, WinForms, Design, Beginner	beep	1.00
Toolbars & Docking Windows - Libraries			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Professional User Interface Suite Updated: 13 Jan 2004   MFC extension library enabling software to be provided with a professional UI VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Sergiy Lavrynenko of Foss Software, Inc.	4.63
Working With Microsoft.mshtml.dll and SHDocVw.dll - Unedited Updated: 24 Jul 2008   How to work With Microsoft.mshtml.dll and SHDocVw.dll .NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Windows, .NET, Intermediate, Advanced	EmersioN	2.40
Toolbars & Docking Windows - ReBars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
A set of classes to create the IE-style GUI Updated: 19 Jul 2003   The article gives a sample of how to implement Internet Explorer-style sizable re-bar and menu bar controls. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nikolay Denisov	4.64
Tear-off Rebars Updated: 26 Jan 2000   This article Implements the functionality similar to the Office 2000 toolbars VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nick Hodapp	4.50
TabedReBar Control Updated: 4 Jun 2004   ReBar control which displays bars via tab panes. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Bahrudin Hrnjica	4.26
Toolbars & Docking Windows - Toolbars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Programming Toolbar Chevrons Updated: 8 May 2003   An introduction to using the cool new toolbar chevrons VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Rajasekar Shanmugam	4.74
How to verify the bar state info Updated: 20 Jan 2000   Verify the bar state info in the application profile before calling LoadBarState() VC6, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Cristi Posea	4.65
Dynamic toolbar has fixed size when docked Updated: 2 Nov 2000   How to ensure that your docking toolbars are of a particular size when docked VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Darren S. Gonzales	4.65
A Toolbar in the middle of elsewhere Updated: 19 Mar 2003   This article explains how to place a toolbar right in the middle of a dialog or a form. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	G. Steudtel	4.59
Very simple true color toolbar (It's true!) Updated: 27 Jan 2003   This is TrueColor Toolbar class VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	DCUtility	4.57
Toolbar in splitter window pane Updated: 15 May 2002   How to add a docking toolbar to a splitter window pane VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Tom Shope	4.56
How to display tooltips for a toolbar in a dialog Updated: 10 Jan 2000   Simple technique for getting tooltips when you have a toolbar in a dialog VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Randy More	4.54
CTrueColorToolBar Updated: 21 Aug 2002   Very simple true color toolbar (It's true!) VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	DCUtility	4.53
Docking Toolbars Side-By-Side Updated: 15 Dec 1999   Demonstrates how to dock toolbars side-by-side VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kirk Stowell	4.53
Setting the row count of a tool bar Updated: 24 Nov 2001   Floating a CToolBar with a given number of rows to be displayed is tricky VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Thomas Blenkers	4.53
Toolbars with embedded Combo Boxes Updated: 7 Aug 2002   The article demonstrates how to add single or multiple combo boxes to standard toolbars in MFC applications, how to customize combo boxes behaviour and how to collect user input from them. VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Vagif Abilov	4.50
XDriveBar - Display drive buttons in a fixed toolbar Updated: 11 Aug 2003   XDriveBar implements a drive bar for the drives in a system. The demo project shows how to keep the drive bar in sync by handling the WM_DEVICECHANGE message. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.49
Disabling the close button on a floating toolbar Updated: 10 Apr 2004   How to disable the close button on a floating toolbar VC7.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Rob Manderson	4.44
AppBar - How to implement a sliding desktop bar with a simple MFC class and a DLL Updated: 10 Jul 2008   An alternative to standard Windows AppBars with minimal changes to your application. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jaime Olivares	4.34
Multiple Image Sizes for ToolStrip Items Updated: 16 Jun 2008   This 'ToolStrip' extension automatically selects an image using the selected image size. C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, Windows, .NET, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	lhayes00	4.32
How to place controls on toolbars Updated: 12 Jan 2000   How to place combo-boxes, edit boxes, progress controls, etc. into toolbars VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Randy More	4.29
XTrueColorToolBar - True-color toolbar with support for Office-style color button - Unedited Updated: 10 Jan 2008   XTrueColorToolBar is an MFC class based on CToolBar that provides support for true-color bitmaps, with optional support for an Office-style color picker button. VC6, VC8.0, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C++, Windows, Win32, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.28
Using Hot Toolbar Buttons Updated: 15 Dec 1999   Demonstrates how to add rollover buttons to your toolbar VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kirk Stowell	4.27
A Flat ToolBar that does not require Internet Explorer Updated: 24 Feb 2000   A flat toolbar implementation that does not require the updated common controls library from Internet Explorer. VC6, NT4, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Joerg Koenig	4.20
Adding a drop arrow to a toolbar button Updated: 15 Dec 1999   Demonstrates how to use the new toolbar styles to add dropdown arrows to toolbar buttons VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kirk Stowell	4.18
ToolBar with Customization and Controls Updated: 18 Dec 2001   A ToolBar class with customization and Controls VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Deepak Khajuria	4.10
CToolbarDialog - dialog with floating toolbar Updated: 6 Apr 2004   A CDialog derived class that contains a floating toolbar. VC6, VC7, Win2K, VS.NET2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Lucian Barbulescu	4.07
ToolBar Customization Updated: 2 Aug 2001   Toolbar Customization with drag & drop support. VC6, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Peppino Sbargzeguti	4.06
Creating Flyout Toolbars Updated: 31 Oct 2001   Attach a sub-toolbar/s to another toolbar's button/s. The sub-toolbar will popup if the user clicks on that button a little bit longer VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, STL, Dev, Intermediate	Y. Hirsh	4.00
Changing toolbars dynamically at runtime Updated: 22 Aug 2000   A simple tutorial that shows how to dynamically replace toolbars at runtime VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Masoud Samimi	3.89
Fixing the toolbar button position bug for MFC CToolBar Updated: 16 Jul 2007   An article on a bug of MFC CToolBar that may cause incorrect tooltips to be shown for a toolbar button VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Vista, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Mingliang Zhu	3.82
VC6 flat toolbar support Updated: 9 Nov 2000   When you are porting your MFC application to MSVC 6.0 you'd probably like to use the build-in support for the flat toolbar and kick that third-party solution out of you project to reduce size. VC6, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Thomas Blenkers	3.80
Adding a Combo Box to a Docking Toolbar Updated: 12 May 2001   This article demonstrates an easy way to add a Combo box to a docking tool bar. VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Zahirul Haque	3.74
CStatic derived control which is a replacement for standard toolbar Updated: 16 Jul 2003   ToolBar control with cool look and easy implementation. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alex Hazanov	3.56
Tool Group Manager Updated: 23 Aug 2000   A reusable template class for managing multiple toolbars, only one of which is displayed at a time. VC6, NT4, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Craig Henderson	3.54
HeaderToolbar Updated: 31 May 2004   How to implement a header to your SDI/MDI project. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Lars [Large] Werner	3.26
Context-Sensitive Help for Toolstrip Items Updated: 9 Jul 2008   How to bind context-sensitive help to .NET ToolStrip items. .NET 2.0, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, C# 3.0, VB 8.0, .NET 3.5, C#, VB, Windows, .NET, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Ivan Alles	3.25
Adding rollover Hot Toolbars to an application. Updated: 2 Feb 2002   Adding rollover Hot Toolbars to an application when you don't have access to the toolbar source code Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Igor Tebelev	3.17
Custom Rendering for the ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls Updated: 19 Sep 2008   Custom rendering for the ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls. C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, Intermediate	bcryner	3.14
Perforated Tape Toolbar Updated: 26 Jan 2000   A spectacular variation on toolbars VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Oleg A. Mostovlyansky	3.06
CGSToolBar Updated: 20 Feb 2001   A flexible extension to the CToolBar class VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Christian Graus, Masoud Samimi	2.67
Toolbar with image background Updated: 30 May 2003   Shows how to display a bitmap in a toolbar as background. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Cryingwind	2.25
How to Create a Dynamic ToolBar Updated: 24 Jul 2007   Create a dynamic toolbar, adding a dynamic bitmap and status and tool tip text C++, C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	rmortega77	1.85