Visual C++ Tutorial

This section gives examples of using various Windows control with each application illustrating one particular control.

This example shows a technique of changing the font of a CEditView-based application instead of using the default.

This example demonstrates a simplistic way to use the scroll events of a dialog box. It uses three track bars to change or update the background color of a static control.

Net Price Calculation

This is a good example of edit box 101 showing how to display numbers in edit boxes.

Tick Counter

This is a technique of calling the Win32's GetTickCount() function to find out how long a computer and/or an application has (have) been on.

Time Sheet: One Shift (Combo Boxes)

This is one-shift time sheet that uses combo boxes instead of edit boxes. The idea is to reduce the likelihood of some mistakes, such as specifying a starting time that occurs after the end time.

Time Sheet: One Shift (Time Picker)

This time sheet also allows the user to select time instead of typing it. This one uses the Time Picker control.

Displaying Bitmaps

This is demonstration of how to display and change the pictures in a control positioned on a dialog box. In this case the pictures display on a static control and the picture changes if the user selects a certain value in a combo box.

Body Monitor

This is another combination of timer and progress bar. This example demonstrates the use of various independent timers in the same dialog box. Each timer gets a random value and uses it to update the value of its corresponding progress bar.

Column Chart

This example uses some values of controls that are positioned on a dialog bar. The values are then used to draw a type of column chart.

Deskpad (Revised)

This is a type of introduction to the CRichEditView and its CRichEditCtrl control.

This section is made of applications that each uses various controls.

Wake Me Up

This application uses MCI to simulate a clock radio but it is used to play a CD when the set time occurs.

College Park Auto-Shop

This is an application that relies on the MFC's file processing to process customers' orders for a car repair business.

College Park Auto-Shop

This is a Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Database (MSDE) database used in an MFC application. The connection is done through an ODBC Data Source. To adapt it to MySQL, make sure that, all you have to do is download the MySQL ODBC Connector.

Georgetown Cleaning Services

This application applies the DatePicker, the TimePicker and the combo box controls to simulate a dry cleaning business.

Payroll

This application is primarily used to take advantage of the date picker control. Meanwhile, it is used to simulate the calculation of overtime from a time sheet.

Clarksville Ice Cream

This application reviews the features of a combo box by simulating an ice cream shop.

Windows Explorer

This example shows how to create a type of Windows Explorer application using a CTreeView class in a left frame and a CListView class in the right frame.

Compound Interest

This is a good example of starting with radio buttons. It calculates the amount of money paid on a loan depending on the frequency of calculation.

Car Inventory 1

This example demonstrates techniques of using changing pictures of a static control in response to the user using another control, in this case a track bar.

Car Inventory 2

This application implements a tree control in a dialog box, reviewing how to create it and use icons on it.

Danilo Pizza

This application retrieves the values of radio buttons, check boxes, and text boxes to perform some operations live. That is, the user doesn't have to click a Calculate, a Submit, or an Apply button: as soon as the value of a control changes, the calculation is automatically updated.

CD Publisher

This demonstrates the use of a spin button to increase or decrease the values by clicking one of the buttons of the control.

This example uses file processing to create a dialog box that presents itself when an application starts. The user must provide a valid username and password in order to access the application.

Screen Saver Simulation

This example simply shows how to continuously draw some geometric figures on the screen in response to a timer ticking.

Pledge Distribution

This is an example of changing the range of values of spin buttons in response to some action by the user. Three spin buttons are created an synchronized while the application is running.

Progressive Clock

This example uses a timer to display the current time of the computer by updating three progress bars in a dialog box.


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