DlgEdit: Dialog Editor

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The DlgEdit tool allows you to design and test a dialog box on a display screen instead of defining dialog box statements in a resource script. You can use DlgEdit to create new dialog boxes and to add or remove controls from an existing dialog box. You can then compile this resource file using the resource compiler. The binary output from the resource compiler can then be linked into your application's executable file.

DlgEdit demonstrates the following techniques:

Building SDK Samples

This sample uses the following keywords:

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