Dialog Box Topics

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Applications for Windows frequently communicate with the user through dialog boxes. Class CDialog provides an interface for managing dialog boxes, the Visual C++ dialog editor makes it easy to design dialog boxes and create their dialog-template resources, and ClassWizard simplifies the process of initializing and validating the controls in a dialog box and of gathering the values entered by the user.

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• Dialog components
  
  
• Modal and modeless dialog boxes
  
  
• Property sheets and property pages in a dialog box
  
  
• Creating a dialog resource template
  
  
• The life cycle of a dialog box
  
  
• Dialog data exchange (DDX) and validation (DDV)
  
  
• Type-safe access to controls in a dialog box
  
  
• Mapping Windows messages to your class
  
  
• Common dialog classes
  
  
• Dialog boxes in OLE