A tale of two flags: DS_CONTROL and WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT
I recently ran into problems with an MFC application that was hosting some Windows Form user control in a modal dialog; the application hanged after it lost focus. The problem was the window received...
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Keyboard input and TAB navigation between WPF controls in a Win32 application
It is possible to host WPF controls in a Win32 application, and the other way around, but because of the differences betweeb these technologies there are various issues that can appear. One of these is...
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CRT Refactored in Visual Studio “14”
Visual Studio “14” CTP ships with a refactored C Runtime. The first thing you’ll notice is that msvcrXX.dll has been replaced by three new DLLs: appcrtXX.dll, desktopcrtXX.dll and vcruntimeXX.ddl...
View ArticleTroubles with Windows target versions
I recently migrated an old VC++ project to use the Visual Studio 2017 toolset and when compiling I run into the following errors about redefining the structure tagTOUCHINPUT: 1>c:\program files...
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Using Microsoft Edge in a native Windows desktop app – part 4
This article in requiring Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime 88.0.705.50 or newer. In the previous articles, we learned how to perform navigation in a Windows desktop application and how navigation events...
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