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Converting An MFC Ribbon To Designer Format

May 4, 2011 May 4, 2011 05/4/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I primarily work on MFC. In Visual Studio 2010, a ribbon designer was added which allows you to visually edit the ribbon used in your MFC application. This doesn’t help you, however, if you adopted the ribbon user interface with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ...

TechEd Europe Demo Session – Face-Lifting MFC Applications on Windows 7

November 23, 2009 Nov 23, 2009 11/23/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, My name is Damien Watkins, and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. Today, I thought I would post the “overview script” for my TechEd Europe session – so those who could not attend can try it out for themselves at home. My talk was about the new MFC features we have added in Visual Studio 2010. Just before we get started...

Ribbon Designer

October 1, 2009 Oct 1, 2009 10/1/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Samatha Mannem and I am a QA with the IDE team. The world has become sophisticated and the time has come to make every application geeky as well as fancy. That is where ‘Ribbon’ has evolved. The recent UI designs that people are attracted to are Microsoft Office and Windows 7 ribbons. While Visual Studio 2008 SP1 included...