This section presents a collection of Visual C++ 6.0 tips which are often hard to find information about. All of the tips are useful in their own way, and many will work exactly as-is in Visual Studio .NET also, so take a moment to browse through the collection.

Continuing on from the last part, here are more Win32 Tips and Tricks for you to browse.

XP Themes

Common-control manifests (which enable the XP themes) can be added to an executable in one of two ways:

Firstly, the manifest can be saved inside a file in the same directory as your executable. It must also have the same filename, with the text '.manifest' appended to the end:

AppName.exe
AppName.exe.manifest

The manifest is just a text file (in XML) and should look like this:

Introduction

This section presents a few win32 programming tips that I have picked up whilst learning to program Windows. Please select a topic from the list below.

No MFC, No VB - pure Win32 C/C++ !!!

Presented here are a collection of programming tutorials for Windows. The tutorials cover various Windows programming topics, but most concentrate on the user-interface aspect of programming. All tutorials and source downloads are in the C programming language. No external libraries such as MFC are required to build the source code presented in these tutorials.

Tips and Tricks