GWES provides controls, menus, dialog boxes, and resources to provide the user with a standard way to make selections, carry out commands, and perform input and output tasks.
Controls and dialog boxes are child windows that allow users to view and organize information and to set or change attributes. A dialog box is a window that contains controls.
All menus in Windows CE are implemented as top-level, pop-up windows. Windows CE supports scrolling menus that automatically add scroll arrows when a menu does not fit on the screen.
Windows CE does not support menu bars, but it does support command bars, which combine the functionality of a menu bar and tool bar in one control. Command bars make efficient use of the limited space available on many Windows CE-based devices.
Windows CE supports the following types of controls, menus, dialog boxes, and resources:
| Application -defined dialog boxes | Bitmaps |
| Carets | Check boxes |
| Combo boxes | Command band |
| Command bars | Common dialog boxes |
| Cursors | Custom draw service |
| Date and time picker controls | Edit control |
| Group boxes | Header controls |
| Icons | Image lists |
| Images | Keyboard accelerators |
| List boxes | List views |
| Menus | Message boxes |
| Month calendar controls | Progress bars |
| Property sheets | Push buttons |
| Radio buttons | Rebars |
| Scroll bars | Static controls |
| Status bars | Strings |
| Tab controls | Toolbars |
| ToolTips | Track bars |
| Tree views | Up-down controls |
In addition to the controls listed in the previous table, Windows CE supports the HTML viewer control, which makes it easier for you to add HTML support to your applications.