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As of today (Feb CTP), Visual C++ projects cannot have XAML in them as C# and VB projects can. Of course, this does not mean that you cannot target Avalon using C++, and if you have read my previous blog entries, you’d have seen a couple of ways how that can be done. To put [...]

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One fundamental aspect about Avalon controls is that they are not native HWND based controls, such as the ones you have been used to with Win32 API programming or with Windows Forms (which merely wraps the API). So if you have an Avalon window with a bunch of controls on it (say a ListBox and [...]

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While it’s an absolute tragedy that C++ does not directly support compiled Xaml, you can use Xaml dynamically from a C++ Avalon app using XamlReader::Load. Let me show you how to do that, using a simple example. You can create your Xaml file, either using a text editor or using a temporary dummy C# or [...]

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You cannot use XAML with C++/CLI, so you’ll have to hand-code your UI, as of now anyway. Anyway, here’s what you need to do to write a simple app. Step 1 Generate a new C++/CLI project, set the subsystem to Windows, set the entry point to main, and add the following references : System (if [...]

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Very frequently in the forums, someone posts a question asking for a function that will create a full directory path for them. For example, they may want to create c:\a\b\c\d\e\f with one call, where the intermediate folders may not exist. The answer, if you are on Win 2000 or later, is to use the SHCreateDirectoryEx [...]

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On the 20th of February, 2006, I woke up at 4:45 AM with an agonizing pain in my chest, or to be more precise, the upper left area of my chest. I couldn’t even breathe properly, it was hard to even move my body, and I panicked thinking that I was having a heart attack. [...]

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I actually published that last week, but forgot to write about it on my blog since I was engrossed in some other issues – which I’ll blog about soon. Anyway, DimmerDialog is a .NET class I wrote, that shows a modal dialog which grays out the rest of the background, just like the Windows XP [...]

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