MFC Classes
The classes in the following list are included in the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library.
Tip
For information about CStringT
and other classes that are common to both MFC and ATL programming, see Classes Shared by MFC and ATL.
Important
The MFC classes and their members cannot be used in applications that execute in the Windows Runtime.
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CAccelerateDecelerateTransition
Class
Implements an accelerate-decelerate transition.
CAnimateCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common animation control.
CAnimationBaseObject
Class
The base class for all animation objects.
CAnimationColor
Class
Implements the functionality of a color whose red, green, and blue components can be animated.
CAnimationController
Class
Implements the animation controller, which provides a central interface for creating and managing animations.
CAnimationGroup
Class
Implements the animation controller, which provides a central interface for creating and managing animations.
CAnimationManagerEventHandler
Class
Implements a callback, which is called by the Animation API when a status of an animation manager is changed.
CAnimationPoint
Class
Implements the functionality of a point whose coordinates can be animated.
CAnimationRect
Class
Implements the functionality of a rectangle whose sides can be animated.
CAnimationSize
Class
Implements the functionality of a size object whose dimensions can be animated.
CAnimationStoryboardEventHandler
Class
Implements a callback, which is called by the Animation API when the status of a storyboard is changed or a storyboard is updated.
CAnimationTimerEventHandler
Class
Implements a callback, which is called by the Animation API when timing events occur.
CAnimationValue
Class
Implements the functionality of animation object that has one value.
CAnimationVariable
Class
Represents an animation variable.
CAnimationVariableChangeHandler
Class
Implements a callback, which is called by the Animation API when the value of an animation variable changes.
CAnimationVariableIntegerChangeHandler
Class
Implements a callback, which is called by the Animation API when the value of an animation variable changes.
CArchive
Class
Lets you save a complex network of objects in a permanent binary form (usually disk storage) that persists after those objects are deleted.
CArchiveException
Class
Represents a serialization exception condition.
CArray
Class
Supports arrays that resemble` C arrays, but can dynamically reduce and grow as necessary.
CAsyncMonikerFile
Class
Provides functionality for the use of asynchronous monikers in ActiveX controls (formerly OLE controls).
CAsyncSocket
Class
Represents a Windows Socket, which is an endpoint of network communication.
CAutoHideDockSite
Class
Extends the CDockSite
Class to implement auto-hide dock panes.
CBaseKeyFrame
Class
Implements the basic functionality of a keyframe.
CBasePane
Class
Base class for all panes.
CBaseTabbedPane
Class
Extends the functionality of the CDockablePane
Class to support the creation of tabbed windows.
CBaseTransition
Class
Represents a basic transition.
CBitmap
Class
Encapsulates a Windows graphics device interface (GDI) bitmap and provides member functions to manipulate the bitmap.
CBitmapButton
Class
Creates pushbutton controls labeled with bitmapped images instead of text.
CBitmapRenderTarget
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1BitmapRenderTarget
.
CBrush
Class
Encapsulates a Windows graphics device interface (GDI) brush.
CButton
Class
Provides the functionality of Windows button controls.
CByteArray
Class
Supports dynamic arrays of bytes.
CCachedDataPathProperty
Class
Implements an OLE control property transferred asynchronously and cached in a memory file.
CCheckListBox
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows checklist box.
CClientDC
Class
Handles the calling of the Windows functions GetDC
at construction time and ReleaseDC
at destruction time.
CCmdTarget
Class
Base class for the Microsoft Foundation Class Library message-map architecture.
CCmdUI
Class
Used only within an ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI
handler in a CCmdTarget
-derived class.
CColorDialog
Class
Lets you incorporate a color-selection dialog box into your application.
CComboBox
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows combo box.
CComboBoxEx
Class
Extends the combo box control by providing support for image lists.
CCommandLineInfo
Class
Aids in parsing the command line at application startup.
CCommonDialog
Class
The base class for classes that encapsulate functionality of the Windows common dialogs.
CConnectionPoint
Class
Defines a special type of interface used to communicate with other OLE objects, called a "connection point."
CConstantTransition
Class
Encapsulates a constant transition.
CContextMenuManager
Class
Manages shortcut menus, also known as context menus.
CControlBar
Class
Base class for the control-bar classes CStatusBar
Class, CToolBar
Class, CDialogBar
Class, CReBar
Class, and COleResizeBar
Class.
CCriticalSection
Class
Represents a "critical section", which is a synchronization object that enables one thread at a time to access a resource or section of code.
CCtrlView
Class
Adapts the document-view architecture to the common controls supported by Windows 98 and Windows NT versions 3.51 and later.
CCubicTransition
Class
Encapsulates a cubic transition.
CCustomInterpolator
Class
Implements a basic interpolator.
CCustomTransition
Class
Implements a custom transition.
CD2DBitmap
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1Bitmap
.
CD2DBitmapBrush
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1BitmapBrush
.
CD2DBrush
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1Brush
.
CD2DBrushProperties
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_BRUSH_PROPERTIES
.
CD2DEllipse
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_BRUSH_PROPERTIES
.
CD2DGeometry
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1Geometry
.
CD2DGeometrySink
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1GeometrySink
.
CD2DGradientBrush
Class
The base class of the CD2DLinearGradientBrush
and the CD2DRadialGradientBrush
classes.
CD2DLayer
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1Layer
.
CD2DLinearGradientBrush
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1LinearGradientBrush
.
CD2DMesh
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1Mesh
.
CD2DPathGeometry
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1PathGeometry
.
CD2DPointF
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_POINT_2F
.
CD2DPointU
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_POINT_2U
.
CD2DRadialGradientBrush
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1RadialGradientBrush
.
CD2DRectF
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_RECT_F
.
CD2DRectU
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_RECT_U
.
CD2DResource
Class
An abstract class that provides an interface for creating and managing D2D
resources such as brushes, layers, and texts.
CD2DRoundedRect
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_ROUNDED_RECT
.
CD2DSizeF
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_SIZE_F
.
CD2DSizeU
Class
A wrapper for D2D1_SIZE_U
.
CD2DSolidColorBrush
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1SolidColorBrush
.
CD2DTextFormat
Class
A wrapper for IDWriteTextFormat
.
CD2DTextLayout
Class
A wrapper for IDWriteTextLayout
.
CDaoDatabase
Class
Represents a connection to a database through which you can operate on the data.
CDaoException
Class
Represents an exception condition arising from the MFC database classes based on data access objects (DAO).
CDaoFieldExchange
Class
Supports the DAO record field exchange (DFX) routines used by the DAO database classes.
CDaoQueryDef
Class
Represents a query definition, or "querydef," usually one saved in a database.
CDaoRecordset
Class
Represents a set of records selected from a data source.
CDaoRecordView
Class
A view that displays database records in controls.
CDaoTableDef
Class
Represents the stored definition of a base table or an attached table.
CDaoWorkspace
Class
Manages a named, password-protected database session from login to logoff, by a single user.
CDatabase
Class
Represents a connection to a data source, through which you can operate on the data source.
CDataExchange
Class
Supports the dialog data exchange (DDX) and dialog data validation (DDV) routines used by the Microsoft Foundation classes.
CDataPathProperty
Class
Implements an OLE control property that can be loaded asynchronously.
CDataRecoveryHandler
Class
Autosaves documents and restores them if an application unexpectedly exits.
CDateTimeCtrl
Class
Encapsulates the functionality of a date and time picker control.
CDBException
Class
Represents an exception condition arising from the database classes.
CDBVariant
Class
Represents a variant data type for the MFC ODBC classes.
CDC
Class
Defines a class of device-context objects.
CDCRenderTarget
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1DCRenderTarget
.
CDHtmlDialog
Class
Used to create dialog boxes that use HTML rather than dialog resources to implement their user interface.
CDialog
Class
Base class used for displaying dialog boxes on the screen.
CDialogBar
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows modeless dialog box in a control bar.
CDialogEx
Class
Specifies the background color and background image of a dialog box.
CDiscreteTransition
Class
Encapsulates a discrete transition.
CDocItem
Class
The base class for document items, which are components of a document's data.
CDockablePane
Class
Implements a pane that can either be docked in a dock site or included in a tabbed pane.
CDockablePaneAdapter
Class
Provides docking support for CWnd
-derived panes.
CDockingManager
Class
Implements the core functionality that controls docking layout in a main frame window.
CDockingPanesRow
Class
Manages a list of panes that are located in the same horizontal or vertical row (column) of a dock site.
CDockSite
Class
Provides functionality for arranging panes that are derived from the CPane
Class into sets of rows.
CDockState
Class
A serialized CObject
class that loads, unloads, or clears the state of one or more docking control bars in persistent memory (a file).
CDocObjectServer
Class
Implements the additional OLE interfaces needed to make a normal COleDocument
server into a full DocObject server: IOleDocument
, IOleDocumentView
, IOleCommandTarget
, and IPrint
.
CDocObjectServerItem
Class
Implements OLE server verbs specifically for DocObject servers.
CDocTemplate
Class
An abstract base class that defines the basic functionality for document templates.
CDocument
Class
Provides the basic functionality for user-defined document classes.
CDragListBox
Class
In addition to providing the functionality of a Windows list box, the CDragListBox
class lets the user move list box items, such as filenames, within the list box.
CDrawingManager
Class
Implements complex drawing algorithms.
CDumpContext
Class
Supports stream-oriented diagnostic output in the form of human-readable text.
CDWordArray
Class
Supports arrays of 32-bit doublewords.
CEdit
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows edit control.
CEditView
Class
A type of view class that provides the functionality of a Windows edit control and can be used to implement simple text-editor functionality.
CEvent
Class
Represents an "event", which is a synchronization object that enables one thread to notify another that an event has occurred.
CException
Class
The base class for all exceptions in the Microsoft Foundation Class Library.
CFieldExchange
Class
Supports the record field exchange (RFX) and bulk record field exchange (Bulk RFX) routines used by the database classes.
CFile
Class
The base class for Microsoft Foundation Class file classes.
CFileDialog
Class
Encapsulates the common file dialog box for Windows.
CFileException
Class
Represents a file-related exception condition.
CFileFind
Class
Performs local file searches and is the base class for CGopherFileFind
Class and CFtpFileFind
Class, which perform Internet file searches.
CFindReplaceDialog
Class
Lets you implement standard string Find/Replace dialog boxes in your application.
CFolderPickerDialog
Class
Implements CFileDialog
in the folder picker mode.
CFont
Class
Encapsulates a Windows graphics device interface (GDI) font and provides member functions for manipulating the font.
CFontDialog
Class
Lets you incorporate a font-selection dialog box into your application.
CFontHolder
Class
Implements the stock Font property and encapsulates the functionality of a Windows font object and the IFont
interface.
CFormView
Class
The base class used for form views.
CFrameWnd
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows single document interface (SDI) overlapped or pop-up frame window, along with members for managing the window.
CFrameWndEx
Class
Implements the functionality of a Windows single document interface (SDI) overlapped or popup frame window, and provides members for managing the window. It extends the CFrameWnd
Class class.
CFtpConnection
Class
Manages your FTP connection to an Internet server and enables direct manipulation of directories and files on that server.
CFtpFileFind
Class
Aids in Internet file searches of FTP servers.
CGdiObject
Class
Provides a base class for various kinds of Windows graphics device interface (GDI) objects such as bitmaps, regions, brushes, pens, palettes, and fonts.
CGopherConnection
Class
Manages your connection to a gopher Internet server.
CGopherFile
Class
Provides the functionality to find and read files on a gopher server.
CGopherFileFind
Class
Aids in Internet file searches of gopher servers.
CGopherLocator
Class
Gets a gopher "locator" from a gopher server, determines the locator's type, and makes the locator available to CGopherFileFind
Class.
CHeaderCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common header control.
CHotKeyCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common hot key control.
CHtmlEditCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the WebBrowser
ActiveX control in an MFC window.
CHtmlEditCtrlBase
Class
Represents an HTML editing component.
CHtmlEditDoc
Class
With CHtmlEditView
Class, provides the functionality of the WebBrowser editing platform within the context of the MFC document-view architecture.
CHtmlEditView
Class
Provides the functionality of the WebBrowser editing platform within the context of MFC's document/view architecture.
CHtmlView
Class
Provides the functionality of the WebBrowser control within the context of MFC's document/view architecture.
CHttpConnection
Class
Manages your connection to an HTTP server.
CHttpFile
Class
Provides the functionality to request and read files on an HTTP server.
CHwndRenderTarget
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1HwndRenderTarget
.
CImageList
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common image list control.
CInstantaneousTransition
Class
Encapsulates an instantaneous transition.
CInternetConnection
Class
Manages your connection to an Internet server.
CInternetException
Class
Represents an exception condition related to an Internet operation.
CInternetFile
Class
Enables access to files on remote systems that use Internet protocols.
CInternetSession
Class
Creates and initializes a single or several simultaneous Internet sessions and, if necessary, describes your connection to a proxy server.
CInterpolatorBase
Class
Implements a callback, which is called by the Animation API when it has to calculate a new value of an animation variable.
CInvalidArgException
Class
This class represents an invalid argument exception condition.
CIPAddressCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common IP Address control.
CJumpList
Class
The list of shortcuts revealed when you right click on an icon in the task bar.
CKeyboardManager
Class
Manages shortcut key tables for the main frame window and child frame windows.
CKeyFrame
Class
Represents an animation keyframe.
CLinearTransition
Class
Encapsulates a linear transition.
CLinearTransitionFromSpeed
Class
Encapsulates a linear-speed transition.
CLinkCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common SysLink control.
CList
Class
Supports ordered lists of nonunique objects accessible sequentially or by value.
CListBox
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows list box.
CListCtrl
Class
Encapsulates the functionality of a "list view control," which displays a collection of items each consisting of an icon (from an image list) and a label.
CListView
Class
Simplifies use of the list control and of CListCtrl
Class, the class that encapsulates list-control functionality, with MFC's document-view architecture.
CLongBinary
Class
Simplifies working with very large binary data objects (often called BLOBs, or "binary large objects") in a database.
CMap
Class
A dictionary collection class that maps unique keys to values.
CMapPtrToPtr
Class
Supports maps of void pointers keyed by void pointers.
CMapPtrToWord
Class
Supports maps of 16-bit words keyed by void pointers.
CMapStringToOb
Class
A dictionary collection class that maps unique CString
objects to CObject
pointers.
CMapStringToPtr
Class
Supports maps of void pointers keyed by CString
objects.
CMapStringToString
Class
Supports maps of CString
objects keyed by CString
objects.
CMapWordToOb
Class
Supports maps of CObject
pointers keyed by 16-bit words.
CMapWordToPtr
Class
Supports maps of void pointers keyed by 16-bit words.
CMDIChildWnd
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows multiple document interface (MDI) child window, along with members for managing the window.
CMDIChildWndEx
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows multiple document interface (MDI) child window. It extends the functionality of CMDIChildWnd
Class. The framework requires this class when an MDI application uses certain MFC classes.
CMDIFrameWnd
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows multiple document interface (MDI) frame window, along with members for managing the window.
CMDIFrameWndEx
Class
Extends the functionality of CFrameWnd
Class, a Windows Multiple Document Interface (MDI) frame window.
CMDITabInfo
Class
Used to pass parameters to CMDIFrameWndEx::EnableMDITabbedGroups
method. Set members of this class to control the behavior of MDI tabbed groups.
CMemFile
Class
The CFile
Class-derived class that supports memory files.
CMemoryException
Class
Represents an out-of-memory exception condition.
CMenu
Class
An encapsulation of the Windows HMENU
.
CMenuTearOffManager
Class
Manages tear-off menus. A tear-off menu is a menu on the menu bar. The user can remove a tear-off menu from the menu bar, causing the tear-off menu to float.
CMetaFileDC
Class
Implements a Windows metafile, which contains a sequence of graphics device interface (GDI) commands that you can replay to create a desired image or text.
CMFCAcceleratorKey
Class
Helper class that implements virtual key mapping and formatting.
CMFCAcceleratorKeyAssignCtrl
Class
Extends the CEdit
Class to support extra system buttons such as ALT, CONTROL, and SHIFT.
CMFCAutoHideButton
Class
A button that displays or hides a CDockablePane
Class that is configured to hide.
CMFCBaseTabCtrl
Class
Implements the base functionality for tabbed windows.
CMFCButton
Class
Adds functionality to the CButton
Class class such as aligning button text, combining button text and an image, selecting a cursor, and specifying a tool tip.
CMFCCaptionBar
Class
Control bar that can display three elements: a button, a text label, and a bitmap. It can only display one element of each type at a time. You can align each element to the left or right edges of the control or to the center. You can also apply a flat or 3D style to the top and bottom borders of the caption bar.
CMFCCaptionButton
Class
Implements a button that is displayed on the caption bar for a docking pane or a mini-frame window. Typically, the framework creates caption buttons automatically.
CMFCColorBar
Class
Represents a docking control bar that can select colors in a document or application.
CMFCColorButton
Class
The CMFCColorButton
and CMFCColorBar
Class classes are used together to implement a color picker control.
CMFCColorDialog
Class
Represents a color selection dialog box.
CMFCColorMenuButton
Class
Supports a menu command or a toolbar button that starts a color picker dialog box.
CMFCColorPickerCtrl
Class
Provides functionality for a control that is used to select colors.
CMFCDesktopAlertDialog
Class
Used together with the CMFCDesktopAlertWnd
Class to display a custom dialog in a popup window.
CMFCDesktopAlertWnd
Class
Implements the functionality of a modeless dialog box which appears on the screen to inform the user about an event.
CMFCDesktopAlertWndInfo
Class
Used with the CMFCDesktopAlertWnd
Class. It specifies the controls that are displayed if the desktop alert window pops up.
CMFCDragFrameImpl
Class
Draws the drag rectangle that appears when the user drags a pane in the standard dock mode.
CMFCDropDownToolBar
Class
A toolbar that appears when the user presses and holds a top-level toolbar button.
CMFCDropDownToolbarButton
Class
A type of toolbar button that behaves like a regular button when it is clicked. However, it opens a drop-down toolbar (CMFCDropDownToolBar
Class if the user presses and holds the toolbar button down.
CMFCDynamicLayout
Class
Specifies how controls in a window are moved and resized as the user resizes the window.
CMFCEditBrowseCtrl
Class
Supports the edit browse control, which is an editable text box that optionally contains a browse button. When the user clicks the browse button, the control performs a custom action or displays a standard dialog box that contains a file browser or a folder browser.
CMFCFilterChunkValueImpl
Class
Simplifies both chunk and property value pair logic.
CMFCFontComboBox
Class
Creates a combo box control that contains a list of fonts.
CMFCFontInfo
Class
Describes the name and other attributes of a font.
CMFCHeaderCtrl
Class
Supports sorting multiple columns in a header control.
CMFCImageEditorDialog
Class
Supports an image editor dialog box.
CMFCKeyMapDialog
Class
Supports a control that maps commands to keys on the keyboard.
CMFCLinkCtrl
Class
Displays a button as a hyperlink and invokes the link's target when the button is clicked.
CMFCListCtrl
Class
Extends the functionality of CListCtrl
Class class by supporting the advanced header control functionality of the CMFCHeaderCtrl
Class.
CMFCMaskedEdit
Class
Supports a masked edit control, which validates user input against a mask and displays the validated results according to a template.
CMFCMenuBar
Class
A menu bar that implements docking.
CMFCMenuButton
Class
A button that displays a pop-up menu and reports on the user's menu selections.
CMFCOutlookBar
Class
A tabbed pane with the visual appearance of the Navigation Pane in Microsoft Outlook 2000 or Outlook 2003. The CMFCOutlookBar
object contains a CMFCOutlookBarTabCtrl
Class object and a series of tabs. The tabs can be either CMFCOutlookBarPane
Class objects or CWnd
-derived objects. To the user, the Outlook bar appears as a series of buttons and a display area. When the user clicks a button, the corresponding control or button pane is displayed.
CMFCOutlookBarPane
Class
A control derived from CMFCToolBar
Class that can be inserted into an Outlook bar (CMFCOutlookBar
Class). The Outlook bar pane contains a column of large buttons. The user can scroll up and down the list of buttons if it is larger than the pane. When the user detaches an Outlook bar pane from the Outlook bar, it can float or dock in the main frame window.
CMFCOutlookBarTabCtrl
Class
A tab control that has the visual appearance of the Navigation Pane in Microsoft Outlook.
CMFCPopupMenu
Class
Implements Windows pop-up menu functionality and extends it by adding features such as tear-off menus and tooltips.
CMFCPopupMenuBar
Class
A menu bar embedded into a pop-up menu.
CMFCPreviewCtrlImpl
Class
Implements a window that is placed on a host window provided by the Shell for Rich Preview.
CMFCPropertyGridColorProperty
Class
Supports a property list control item that opens a color selection dialog box.
CMFCPropertyGridCtrl
Class
Supports an editable property grid control that can display properties in alphabetical or hierarchical order.
CMFCPropertyGridFileProperty
Class
Supports a property list control item that opens a file selection dialog box.
CMFCPropertyGridFontProperty
Class
Supports a property list control item that opens a font selection dialog box.
CMFCPropertyGridProperty
Class
Represents a list item in a property list control.
CMFCPropertyPage
Class
Supports the display of pop-up menus on a property page.
CMFCPropertySheet
Class
Supports a property sheet where each property page is denoted by a page tab, a toolbar button, a tree control node, or a list item.
CMFCReBar
Class
Control bar that provides layout, persistence, and state information for rebar controls.
CMFCRibbonApplicationButton
Class
Implements a special button located in the top-left corner of the application window. When clicked, the button opens a menu that usually contains common File commands like Open, Save, and Exit.
CMFCRibbonBaseElement
Class
Base class for all elements that you can add to a CMFCRibbonBar
Class. Examples of ribbon elements are ribbon buttons, ribbon check boxes, and ribbon combo boxes.
CMFCRibbonButton
Class
Implements buttons that you can position on ribbon bar elements such as panels, Quick Access Toolbars, and pop-up menus.
CMFCRibbonButtonsGroup
Class
Lets you organize a set of ribbon buttons into a group. All buttons in the group are directly adjacent to each other horizontally and enclosed in a border.
CMFCRibbonCategory
Class
Implements a ribbon tab that contains a group of CMFCRibbonPanel
Class.
CMFCRibbonCheckBox
Class
Implements a check box that you can add to a ribbon panel, Quick Access Toolbar, or popup menu.
CMFCRibbonColorButton
Class
Implements a color button that you can add to a ribbon bar. The ribbon color button displays a drop-down menu that contains one or more color palettes.
CMFCRibbonComboBox
Class
Implements a combo box control that you can add to a ribbon bar, a ribbon panel, or a ribbon popup menu.
CMFCRibbonContextCaption
Class
Implements a colored caption that appears at the top of a ribbon category or a context category.
CMFCRibbonEdit
Class
Implements an edit control that is positioned on a ribbon.
CMFCRibbonFontComboBox
Class
Implements a combo box that contains a list of fonts. You place the combo box on a ribbon panel.
CMFCRibbonGallery
Class
Implements Office 2007-style ribbon galleries.
CMFCRibbonGalleryMenuButton
Class
Implements a ribbon menu button that contains ribbon galleries.
CMFCRibbonLabel
Class
Implements a non-clickable text label for a ribbon.
CMFCRibbonLinkCtrl
Class
Implements a hyperlink that is positioned on a ribbon. The hyperlink opens a Web page when you click it.
CMFCRibbonMainPanel
Class
Implements a ribbon panel that displays when you click the CMFCRibbonApplicationButton
Class.
CMFCRibbonMiniToolBar
Class
Implements a contextual popup toolbar.
CMFCRibbonPanel
Class
Implements a panel that contains a set of ribbon elements. When the panel is drawn, it displays as many elements as possible, given the size of the panel.
CMFCRibbonProgressBar
Class
Implements a control that visually indicates the progress of a lengthy operation.
CMFCRibbonSlider
Class
Implements a slider control that you can add to a ribbon bar or ribbon status bar. The ribbon slider control resembles the zoom sliders that appear in Office 2007 applications.
CMFCRibbonStatusBar
Class
Implements a status bar control that can display ribbon elements.
CMFCRibbonStatusBarPane
Class
Implements a ribbon element that you can add to a ribbon status bar.
CMFCRibbonUndoButton
Class
Implements a split button, a small button with a downward pointing triangle on the rightmost part of the main button. Users can click the triangle to display a drop-down list of their most recently performed actions. Users can then select one or more actions from the drop-down list. However, if the user clicks the button, only the last (the most recently added) action on the drop-down list is undone. You should populate the list with actions as the user performs them.
CMFCShellListCtrl
Class
Provides Windows list control functionality and expands it by including the ability to display a list of shell items.
CMFCShellTreeCtrl
Class
Extends CTreeCtrl
Class functionality by displaying a hierarchy of Shell items.
CMFCSpinButtonCtrl
Class
Supports a visual manager that draws a spin button control.
CMFCStatusBar
Class
Implements a status bar similar to the CStatusBar
class. However, the CMFCStatusBar
class has features not offered by the CStatusBar
class, such as the ability to display images, animations, and progress bars; and the ability to respond to mouse double-clicks.
CMFCTabCtrl
Class
Provides functionality for a tab control. The tab control displays a dockable window with flat or three-dimensional tabs at its top or bottom. The tabs can display text and an image and can change color when active.
`CMFCTabToolTipInfo Structure
Provides information about the MDI tab that the user is hovering over.
CMFCTasksPane
Class
Implements a list of clickable items (tasks).
CMFCTasksPaneTask
Class
Helper class that represents tasks for the task pane control (CMFCTasksPane
Class). The task object represents an item in the task group (CMFCTasksPaneTaskGroup
Class). Each task can have a command that the framework executes when a user clicks on the task and an icon that appears to the left of the task name.
CMFCTasksPaneTaskGroup
Class
Helper class used by the CMFCTasksPane
Class control. Objects of type CMFCTasksPaneTaskGroup
represent a task group. The task group is a list of items that the framework displays in a separate box that has a collapse button. The box can have an optional caption (group name). If a group is collapsed, the list of tasks is not visible.
CMFCToolBar
Class
Resembles CToolBar
Class, but provides additional support for user interface features. These include flat toolbars, toolbars with hot images, large icons, pager buttons, locked toolbars, rebar controls, text under images, background images, and tabbed toolbars. The CMFCToolBar
class also contains built-in support for user customization of toolbars and menus, drag-and-drop between toolbars and menus, combo box buttons, edit box buttons, color pickers, and roll-up buttons.
CMFCToolBarImages
Class
Manages toolbar images loaded from application resources or from files.
CMFCToolBarInfo
Class
Contains the resource IDs of toolbar images in various states. CMFCToolBarInfo
is a helper class that is used as a parameter of the CMFCToolBar::LoadToolBarEx
method.
CMFCToolBarMenuButton
Class
A toolbar button that contains a pop-up menu.
CMFCToolBarsCustomizeDialog
Class
A modeless tab dialog box (CPropertySheet
Class) that enables the user to customize the toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts, user-defined tools, and visual style in an application. Typically, the user accesses this dialog box by selecting Customize from the Tools menu.
CMFCToolTipCtrl
Class
An extended tooltip implementation based on the CToolTipCtrl
Class. A tooltip based on the CMFCToolTipCtrl
class can display an icon, a label, and a description. You can customize its visual appearance by using a gradient fill, custom text and border colors, bold text, rounded corners, or a balloon style.
CMFCToolTipInfo
Class
Stores information about the visual appearance of tooltips.
CMFCVisualManager
Class
Provides support for changing the appearance of your application at a global level. The CMFCVisualManager
class works together with a class that provides instructions to draw the GUI controls of your application using a consistent style. These other classes are referred to as visual managers and they inherit from CMFCBaseVisualManager
.
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2003
Class
Gives an application a Microsoft Office 2003 appearance.
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007
Class
Gives an application a Microsoft Office 2007 appearance.
CMFCVisualManagerVS2005
Class
Gives an application a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 appearance.
CMFCVisualManagerWindows
Class
Mimics the appearance of Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Vista when the user selects a Windows XP or Vista theme.
CMFCVisualManagerWindows7
Class
Gives an application the appearance of a Windows 7 application.
CMFCWindowsManagerDialog
Class
Enables a user to manage MDI child windows in an MDI application.
CMiniFrameWnd
Class
Represents a half-height frame window typically seen around floating toolbars.
CMonikerFile
Class
Represents a stream of data (IStream
) named by an IMoniker
.
CMonthCalCtrl
Class
Encapsulates the functionality of a month calendar control.
CMouseManager
Class
Lets a user associate different commands with a particular CView
Class object when the user double-clicks inside that view.
CMultiDocTemplate
Class
Defines a document template that implements the multiple document interface (MDI).
CMultiLock
Class
Represents the access-control mechanism used in controlling access to resources in a multithreaded program.
CMultiPageDHtmlDialog
Class
A multipage dialog displays multiple HTML pages sequentially and handles the events from each page.
CMultiPaneFrameWnd
Class
Extends CPaneFrameWnd
Class. It can support multiple panes. Instead of a single embedded handle to a control bar, CMultiPaneFrameWnd
contains a CPaneContainerManager
Class object that enables the user to dock one CMultiPaneFrameWnd
to another and dynamically create multiple floating, tabbed windows.
CMutex
Class
Represents a mutex, which is a synchronization object that allows one thread mutually exclusive access to a resource.
CNetAddressCtrl
Class
The CNetAddressCtrl
class represents the network address control, which you can use to input and validate the format of IPv4, IPv6, and named DNS addresses.
CNotSupportedException
Class
Represents an exception that is the result of a request for an unsupported feature.
CObArray
Class
Supports arrays of CObject
pointers.
CObject
Class
The principal base class for the Microsoft Foundation Class Library.
CObList
Class
Supports ordered lists of non-unique CObject
pointers accessible sequentially or by pointer value.
COccManager
Class
Manages various custom control sites; implemented by COleControlContainer
and COleControlSite
objects.
COleBusyDialog
Class
Used for the OLE Server Not Responding or Server Busy dialog boxes.
COleChangeIconDialog
Class
Used for the OLE Change Icon dialog box.
COleChangeSourceDialog
Class
Used for the OLE Change Source dialog box.
COleClientItem
Class
Defines the container interface to OLE items.
COleCmdUI
Class
Implements a method for MFC to update the state of user-interface objects related to the IOleCommandTarget
-driven features of your application.
COleControl
Class
A powerful base class for developing OLE controls.
COleControlContainer
Class
Acts as a control container for ActiveX controls.
COleControlModule
Class
The base class from which you derive an OLE control module object.
COleControlSite
Class
Provides support for custom client-side control interfaces.
COleConvertDialog
Class
For more information, see the OLEUICONVERT
structure in the Windows SDK.
COleCurrency
Class
Encapsulates the CURRENCY
data type of OLE automation.
COleDataObject
Class
Used in data transfers for retrieving data in various formats from the Clipboard, through drag and drop, or from an embedded OLE item.
COleDataSource
Class
Acts as a cache into which an application places the data that it will offer during data transfer operations, such as Clipboard or drag-and-drop operations.
COleDBRecordView
Class
A view that displays database records in controls.
COleDialog
Class
Provides functionality common to dialog boxes for OLE.
COleDispatchDriver
Class
Implements the client side of OLE automation.
COleDispatchException
Class
Handles exceptions specific to the OLE IDispatch
interface, which is a key part of OLE automation.
COleDocObjectItem
Class
Implements Active document containment.
COleDocument
Class
The base class for OLE documents that support visual editing.
COleDropSource
Class
Enables data to be dragged to a drop target.
COleDropTarget
Class
Provides the communication mechanism between a window and the OLE libraries.
COleException
Class
Represents an exception condition related to an OLE operation.
COleInsertDialog
Class
Used for the OLE Insert Object dialog box.
COleIPFrameWnd
Class
The base for your application's in-place editing window.
COleIPFrameWndEx
Class
Implements an OLE container that supports MFC. You must derive the in-place frame window class for your application from the COleIPFrameWndEx
class, instead of deriving it from the COleIPFrameWnd
class.
COleLinkingDoc
Class
The base class for OLE container documents that support linking to the embedded items they contain.
COleLinksDialog
Class
Used for the OLE Edit Links dialog box.
COleMessageFilter
Class
Manages the concurrency required by the interaction of OLE applications.
COleObjectFactory
Class
Implements the OLE class factory, which creates OLE objects such as servers, automation objects, and documents.
COlePasteSpecialDialog
Class
Used for the OLE Paste Special dialog box.
COlePropertiesDialog
Class
Encapsulates the Windows common OLE Object Properties dialog box.
COlePropertyPage
Class
Used to display the properties of a custom control in a graphical interface, similar to a dialog box.
COleResizeBar
Class
A type of control bar that supports resizing of in-place OLE items.
COleSafeArray
Class
A class for working with arrays of arbitrary type and dimension.
COleServerDoc
Class
The base class for OLE server documents.
COleServerItem
Class
Provides the server interface to OLE items.
COleStreamFile
Class
Represents a stream of data (IStream
) in a compound file as part of OLE Structured Storage.
COleTemplateServer
Class
Used for OLE visual editing servers, automation servers, and link containers (applications that support links to embeddings).
COleUpdateDialog
Class
Used for a special case of the OLE Edit Links dialog box, which should be used when you need to update only existing linked or embedded objects in a document.
COleVariant
Class
Encapsulates the VARIANT
data type.
CPagerCtrl
Class
The CPagerCtrl
class wraps the Windows pager control, which can scroll into view a contained window that does not fit the containing window.
CPageSetupDialog
Class
Encapsulates the services provided by the Windows common OLE Page Setup dialog box with additional support for setting and modifying print margins.
CPaintDC
Class
A device-context class derived from CDC
Class.
CPalette
Class
Encapsulates a Windows color palette.
CPane
Class
Enhancement of the CControlBar
Class. If you are upgrading an existing MFC project, you need to replace all occurrences of CControlBar
with CPane
.
CPaneContainer
Class
Basic component of the docking model implemented by MFC. An object of this class stores pointers to two docking panes or to two instances of CPaneContainer
. It also stores a pointer to the divider that separates the panes (or the containers). By nesting containers inside containers, the framework can build a binary tree that represents complex docking layouts. The root of the binary tree is stored in a CPaneContainerManager
Class object.
CPaneContainerManager
Class
Manages the storage and display of the current docking layout.
CPaneDialog
Class
Supports a modeless, dockable dialog box.
CPaneDivider
Class
Divides two panes, divides two groups of panes, or separates a group of panes from the client area of the main frame window.
CPaneFrameWnd
Class
Implements a mini-frame window that contains one pane. The pane fills the client area of the window.
CParabolicTransitionFromAcceleration
Class
Encapsulates a parabolic-acceleration transition.
CPen
Class
Encapsulates a Windows graphics device interface (GDI) pen.
CPictureHolder
Class
Implements a Picture property, which lets the user display a picture in your control.
CPoint
Class
Similar to the Windows POINT
structure.
CPrintDialog
Class
Encapsulates the services provided by the Windows common dialog box for printing.
CPrintDialogEx
Class
Encapsulates the services provided by the Windows Print property sheet.
CProgressCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common progress bar control.
CPropertyPage
Class
Represents individual pages of a property sheet, otherwise known as a tab dialog box.
CPropertySheet
Class
Represents property sheets, also known as tab dialog boxes.
CPropExchange
Class
Supports the implementation of persistence for your OLE controls.
CPtrArray
Class
Supports arrays of void pointers.
CPtrList
Class
Supports lists of void pointers.
CReBar
Class
A control bar that provides layout, persistence, and state information for rebar controls.
CReBarCtrl
Class
Encapsulates the functionality of a rebar control, which is a container for a child window.
CRecentDockSiteInfo
Class
Helper class that stores recent state information for the CPane
Class.
CRecentFileList
Class
Supports control of the most recently used (MRU) file list.
CRecordset
Class
Represents a set of records selected from a data source.
CRecordView
Class
A view that displays database records in controls.
CRect
Class
Similar to a Windows RECT
structure.
CRectTracker
Class
Enables an item to be displayed, moved, and resized in different fashions.
CRenderTarget
Class
A wrapper for ID2D1RenderTarget
.
CResourceException
Class
Generated when Windows cannot find or allocate a requested resource.
CReversalTransition
Class
Encapsulates a reversal transition.
CRgn
Class
Encapsulates a Windows graphics device interface (GDI) region.
CRichEditCntrItem
Class
With CRichEditView
Class and CRichEditDoc
Class, provides the functionality of the rich edit control within the context of MFC's document view architecture.
CRichEditCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the rich edit control.
CRichEditDoc
Class
With CRichEditView
Class and CRichEditCntrItem
Class, provides the functionality of the rich edit control within the context of MFC's document view architecture.
CRichEditView
Class
With CRichEditDoc
Class and CRichEditCntrItem
Class, provides the functionality of the rich edit control within the context of MFC's document view architecture.
CScrollBar
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows scroll-bar control.
CScrollView
Class
A CView
Class with scrolling capabilities.
CSemaphore
Class
Represents a "semaphore", which is a synchronization object that allows a limited number of threads in one or more processes to access aMaintains a count of the number of threads currently accessing a specified resource.
CSettingsStore
Class
Wraps Windows API functions, providing an object-oriented interface that you use to access the registry.
CSettingsStoreSP
Class
Helper class that you can use to create instances of the CSettingsStore
Class.
CSharedFile
Class
The CMemFile
Class-derived class that supports shared memory files.
CShellManager
Class
Implements several methods that enable you to work with pointers to identifier lists (PIDLs).
CSimpleException
Class
This class is a base class for resource-critical MFC exceptions.
CSingleDocTemplate
Class
Defines a document template that implements the single document interface (SDI).
CSingleLock
Class
Represents the access-control mechanism used in controlling access to a resource in a multithreaded program.
CSinusoidalTransitionFromRange
Class
Encapsulates a sinusoidal-range transition that has a given range of oscillation.
CSinusoidalTransitionFromVelocity
Class
Encapsulates a sinusoidal-velocity transition that has an amplitude that is determined by the initial velocity of the animation variable.
CSize
Class
Similar to the Windows SIZE
structure, which implements a relative coordinate or position.
CSliderCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common slider control.
CSmartDockingInfo
Class
Defines the appearance of smart docking markers.
CSmoothStopTransition
Class
Encapsulates a smooth-stop transition.
CSocket
Class
Derives from CAsyncSocket
, and represents a higher level of abstraction of the Windows Sockets API.
CSocketFile
Class
A CFile
object used for sending and receiving data across a network via Windows Sockets.
CSpinButtonCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common spin button control.
CSplitButton
Class
Represents a split button control. The split button control performs a default behavior when a user clicks the main part of the button, and displays a drop-down menu when a user clicks the drop-down arrow of the button.
CSplitterWnd
Class
Provides the functionality of a splitter window, which is a window that contains multiple panes.
CSplitterWndEx
Class
Represents a customized splitter window.
CStatic
Class
Provides the functionality of a Windows static control.
CStatusBar
Class
A control bar with a row of text output panes, or "indicators".
CStatusBarCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common status bar control.
CStdioFile
Class
Represents a C run-time stream file as opened by the run-time function fopen
, _wfopen
.
CStringArray
Class
Supports arrays of CString
objects.
CStringList
Class
Supports lists of CString
objects.
CSyncObject
Class
A pure virtual class that provides functionality common to the synchronization objects in Win32.
CTabbedPane
Class
Implements the functionality of a pane with detachable tabs.
CTabCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common tab control.
CTabView
Class
Simplifies the use of the tab control class (CTabView
Class) in applications that use MFC's document/view architecture.
CTaskDialog
Class
A pop-up dialog box that functions like a message box but can display additional information to the user. The CTaskDialog
also includes functionality for gathering information from the user.
CToolBar
Class
Control bars that have a row of bitmapped buttons and optional separators.
CToolBarCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows toolbar common control.
CToolTipCtrl
Class
Encapsulates the functionality of a "tool tip control", a small pop-up window that displays a single line of text describing the purpose of a tool in an application.
CTooltipManager
Class
Maintains runtime information about tooltips. The CTooltipManager
class is instantiated one time per application.
CTreeCtrl
Class
Provides the functionality of the Windows common tree view control.
CTreeView
Class
Simplifies use of the tree control and of CTreeCtrl
Class, the class that encapsulates tree-control functionality, with MFC's document-view architecture.
CTypedPtrArray
Class
Provides a type-safe "wrapper" for objects of class CPtrArray
or CObArray
.
CTypedPtrList
Class
Provides a type-safe "wrapper" for objects of class CPtrList
.
CTypedPtrMap
Class
Provides a type-safe "wrapper" for objects of the pointer-map classes CMapPtrToPtr
, CMapPtrToWord
, CMapWordToPtr
, and CMapStringToPtr
.
CUIntArray
Class
Supports arrays of unsigned integers.
CUserException
Class
Thrown to stop an end-user operation.
CUserTool
Class
Menu item that runs an external application. The Tools tab of the Customize dialog box (CMFCToolBarsCustomizeDialog
Class) enables the user to add user tools, and to specify the name, command, arguments, and initial directory for each user tool.
CUserToolsManager
Class
Maintains the collection of CUserTool
Class objects in an application. A user tool is a menu item that runs an external application. The CUserToolsManager
object enables the user or developer to add new user tools to the application. It supports the execution of the commands associated with user tools, and it also saves information about user tools in the Windows registry.
CView
Class
Provides the basic functionality for user-defined view classes.
CVSListBox
Class
Supports an editable list control.
CWaitCursor
Class
Provides a one-line way to show a wait cursor, which is usually displayed as an hourglass, while you're doing a lengthy operation.
CWinApp
Class
The base class from which you derive a Windows application object.
CWinAppEx
Class
Handles the application state, saves the state to the registry, loads the state from the registry, initializes application managers, and provides links to those same application managers.
CWindowDC
Class
Derived from CDC
.
CWinFormsControl
Class
Provides the basic functionality for hosting of a Windows Forms control.
CWinFormsDialog
Class
A wrapper for an MFC dialog class that hosts a Windows Forms user control.
CWinFormsView
Class
Provides generic functionality for hosting of a Windows Forms control as an MFC view.
CWinThread
Class
Represents a thread of execution within an application.
CWnd
Class
Provides the base functionality of all window classes in the Microsoft Foundation Class Library.
CWordArray
Class
Supports arrays of 16-bit words.
Related Sections
MFC Desktop Applications
Contains links to topics about the classes, global functions, global variables, and macros that make up the MFC Library.