Making and Using Controls

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You make most controls for dialog boxes in the Visual C++ dialog editor. But you can also create controls in any dialog box or window.

What do you want to know more about

• Using common controls in a dialog box

• Using the dialog editor to add controls

• Adding controls by hand (without the dialog editor)

• Deriving controls from a standard control

• Using a common control as a child window

• Receiving notification from common controls

• Dialog Data Exchange and Validation

• Type-Safe Access to Controls With Code Wizards

• Individual controls: see Controls for links to all common controls

• Dialog boxes

• Dialog bars

See Also

Controls