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"How Do I?" Videos for Native Coding

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Native Coding Video Topics

Getting Started
MFC Classes
Controls
Graphics and Drawing
MFC Feature Pack

Internet
Debugging
.NET/Managed Code
Speech
General Topics

Featured Video

How Do I: Use the Animation Control in MFC?

In this video, Jonathan Wood demonstrates how you can use the animation control in an MFC dialog box.

Presented by Jonathan Wood on January 27, 2009
Length: 10 minutes 7 seconds

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Getting Started

How Do I: Learn to Use Visual C++ Express Edition?
(20 minutes 57 seconds)

How Do I: Install an SDK (C++)?
(17 minutes 6 seconds)

How Do I: Quickly Create Simple Applications using MFC?
(26 minutes 24 seconds)

How Do I: Design Dialog Boxes?
(22 minutes 35 seconds)

How Do I: Better Understand Using Pointers and References?
(25 minutes 20 seconds)

How Do I: Learn the Principles of Object-Oriented Programming?
(22 minutes 15 seconds)

How Do I: Use C++ Inheritance to Extend MFC?
(14 minutes 39 seconds)

How Do I: Use the Visual Studio IDE? (IDE 101, Part 2)
(11 minutes 19 seconds)

How Do I: Develop MFC Applications with Visual Studio?
(21 minutes 17 seconds)

How Do I: Use Basic MFC Commands and Command Handlers?
(15 minutes 38 seconds)

How Do I: Create a Phone Book Application in MFC?
(29 minutes 42 seconds)

How Do I: Get Started with the MFC Serializing Mechanism?
(15 minutes 8 seconds)

How Do I: Transfer Data Between Variables and Dialog Controls?
(17 minutes 45 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC Application Resources in Visual Studio?
(18 minutes 1 seconds)

How Do I: Work with Unicode Text in Microsoft Foundation Class?
(17 minutes 37 seconds)

How Do I: Change the Mouse Cursor in an Microsoft Foundation Class Application?
(15 minutes 48 seconds)

How Do I: Create a Console Application with Visual C++ Express Edition?
(20 minutes 57 seconds)

How Do I: Use and Customize the MFC Status Bar?
(13 minutes 38 seconds)

How Do I: Use ActiveX Controls in an MFC Application?
(13 minutes 45 seconds)

How Do I: Store Application Settings in MFC?
(13 minutes 38 seconds)

How Do I: Develop a Win32 Application in Visual C++?
(26 minutes 31 seconds)

How Do I: Build a DLL?
(19 minutes 55 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC Classes for Accessing a Windows Common Dialog Box?
(18 minutes 10 seconds)

How Do I: Implement Print and Print Preview in MFC?
(25 minutes 16 seconds)

MFC Classes

How Do I: Use the CMemFile Class?
(27 minutes 49 seconds)

How Do I: Use the Cform View Class?
(17 minutes 38 seconds)

How Do I: Implement CScrollView in an Application?
(15 minutes 54 seconds)

How Do I: Create my Own Custom Exception Classes?
(14 Minutes 46 seconds)

How Do I: Use the CFile Class?
(19 minutes 19 seconds)

How Do I: Use the CDHtmlDialog Class?
(17 minutes 33 seconds)

How Do I: Use the CtrlView Classes in MFC?
(16 minutes 53 seconds)

How Do I: Use the CBitmapButton Class in MFC?
(14 minutes 18 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC Collection Classes?
(24 minutes 2 seconds)

How Do I: Create Splitter Windows Using the CSplitterWnd Class in Visual C++?
(13 minutes 37 seconds)

Controls

How Do I: Use Windows Controls in My MFC Application?
(18 minutes 31 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC Control Classes to Customize Control Behavior?
(14 minutes 5 seconds)

How Do I: Use the Animation Control in MFC?
(10 minutes 7 seconds)

How Do I: Use the CComboBoxEx Control?
(15 minutes 8 seconds)

How Do I: Use the SysLink Control in MFC?
(12 minutes 12 seconds)

How Do I: Implement Custom Dialog Controls
(24 minutes 11 seconds)

How Do I: Send Control Notification to a Parent Window?
(14 minutes 32 seconds)

Graphics and Drawing

How Do I: Draw in Windows Using Device Context and the MFC CDC Class?
(17 minutes 52 seconds)

How Do I: Eliminate "Flicker" when Drawing in a Window?
(28 minutes 16 seconds)

How Do I: Use Custom Draw Techniques for the MFC ListCtrl?
(20 minutes 19 seconds)

How Do I: Create an Owner-Drawn Toolbar in MFC?
(25 minutes 35 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC to Implement Owner List Boxes and Combo Boxes?
(25 minutes, 25 seconds)

MFC Feature Pack

How Do I: Use the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack? Part 1: Introduction
(16 minutes 27 seconds)

How Do I: Use the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack? Part 2: Using the Ribbon Bar
(19 minutes 20 secondss)

How Do I: Use the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack? Part 3: Creating Visual Studio-Style Applications
(25 minutes 30 seconds)

How Do I: Create Ribbon Controls? Part 1
(28 minutes 8 seconds)

How Do I: Create Ribbon Controls? Part 2
(26 minutes 33 seconds)

How Do I: Modify Images in My Ribbon Bar?
(20 minutes 46 seconds)

Internet

How Do I: Get Started Using the MFC Internet Classes?
(25 minutes 35 seconds)

How Do I: Use the MFC FTP Classes?
(20 minutes 25 seconds)

How Do I: Build an Internet Server API?
(26 minutes 2 seconds)

Debugging

How Do I: Detect Memory Leaks in an MFC Application?
(13 minutes 24 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC Debug Macros and Functions to Track My Application?l
(18 minutes 11 seconds)

How Do I: Learn Techniques to Decrease Buffer Overruns in Visual C++?
(12 minutes 41 seconds)

How Do I: Use MFC Support for Exception Handling in C++?
(19 minutes 32 seconds)

How Do I: Use Remote Debugging in a Windows Console Application?
(18 minutes 17 seconds)

How Do I: Improve My Debugging Productivity with Visual C++ Visualizers?
(13 minutes 50 seconds)

How Do I: Create and Analyze a Mini-Dump File in Windows?
(18 minutes 22 seconds)

How Do I: Report Significant Events to the Event Log?
(20 minutes 6 seconds)

.NET/Managed Code

How Do I: Learn C++ Programming as a .NET Developer? (Part I)
(24 minutes 51 seconds)

How Do I: Learn C++ Programming as a .NET Developer? (Part 2)
(29 minutes 19 seconds)

How Do I: Make Use of Assemblies Written in Any CLS Language?
(19 minutes 47 second)

How Do I: Use .NET Assemblies in Native C++ Applications?
(29 minutes 38 seconds)

Speech

How Do I: Get Started with Speech Recognition?
(18 minutes 9 seconds)

How Do I: Use Speech Recognition in an Application?
(28 minutes 7 seconds)

How Do I: Deliver Text-to-Speech with Visual C++?
(20 minutes 16 seconds)

General Topics

How Do I: Use MFC to Work with Databases?
(19 minutes 27 seconds)

How Do I: Use HTML Help in MFC? Part 1
(21 minutes 5 seconds)

How Do I: Use HTML Help in MFC? Part 2
(19 minutes 29 seconds)

How Do I: Use the SHFileOperation Function from MFC?
(30 minutes 39 seconds)

How Do I: Implement Undo and Redo in MFC?
(24 minutes 36 seconds)

How Do I: Create a Splash Screen in an MFC Application?
(13 minutes 10 seconds)

How Do I: Create Context-Sensitive Menus in MFC?
(17 minutes 14 seconds)

How Do I: Create Tray Icons in MFC?
(22 minutes 40 seconds)

How Do I: Save My Window Position and Size Between Sessions?
(19 minutes 43 seconds)

How Do I: Encrypt and Decrypt Files?
(28 minutes 41 seconds)

How Do I: Create a Control Panel Application in Visual C++?
(29 minutes 48 seconds)

How Do I: Use the Transaction Manager in Windows Vista Kernel?
(20 minutes 34 seconds)

How Do I: Perform Read and Write Operations Asynchronously in Visual C++?
(29 minutes 56 seconds)

How Do I: Run Document-Centric Visual C++ Applications as a Single Instance?
(25 minutes 1 seconds)

How Do I: Implement Drag and Drop in MFC?
(29 minutes 36 seconds)

How Do I: Use Active Template Library Support in Visual C++?
(15 minutes 48 seconds)

How Do I: Store External Data Files Within an EXE?
(19 minutes 57 seconds)

How Do I: Create Property Pages Using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)?
(12 minutes 11 seconds)

How Do I: Use Visual C++ to Start, Stop and Configure Windows Services?
(12 minutes 34 seconds)

How Do I: Register Custom Window Classes?
(11 minutes 38 seconds)

How Do I: Use Advanced Message Maps Techniques?
(22 minutes 21 seconds)