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Lesson 1 -Building Your First Windows Application

1.1 : Creating a Windows Application

1.2 : Creating a Dialog-Based Application

1.3 : Creating DLLs, Console Applications, and More
1.4 : Changing Your AppWizard Decisions
 1.5 : Understanding AppWizard’s Code
 1.6 : Understanding a MDI Application
 1.7 : Understanding the Components of a Dialog-Based Application

Lesson 2 - Dialogs and Controls

2.1 : Understanding Dialog Boxes

2.2 : Creating a Dialog Box Resource
 2.3 : Writing a Dialog Box Class
 2.4 : Using the Dialog Box Class
Lesson 3 - Messages and Commands

3.1 : Understanding Message Routing

3.2 : Understanding Message Loops
 3.3 : Reading Message Maps
 3.4 : Learning How ClassWizard Helps You Catch Messages
 3.5 : Recognizing Messages
 3.6 : Understanding Commands
 3.7 : Understanding Command Updates
 3.8 : Learning How ClassWizard Helps You Catch Commands and Command Updates

Lesson 4 - Documents and Views

4.1 : Understanding the Document Class

4.2 : Understanding the View Class

4.3 : Creating the Rectangles Application
 4.4 : Other View Classes

4.5 : Document Templates, Views, and Frame Windows

Lesson 5 - Drawing on the Screen

5.1 :Understanding Device Contexts
 5.2 : Introducing the Paint1 Application
 5.3 : Building the Paint1 Application
 5.4 : Scrolling Windows
 5.5 : Building the Scroll Application
Lesson 6 - Building a Complete Application: ShowString

6.1 : Building an Application That Displays a String
 6.2 : Building the ShowString Menus
 6.3 : Building the ShowString Dialog Boxes
 6.4 : Making the Menu Work
 6.5 : Making the Dialog Box Work
 6.6 : Adding Appearance Options to the Options Dialog Box
Lesson 7 -  Status Bars and Toolbars

7.1 : Working with Toolbars
 7.2 : Working with Status Bars
Lesson 8 - Common Controls

8.1 : The Progress Bar Control
 8.2 : The Up-Down Control
 8.3 : The Image List Control
 8.4 : The List View Control
 8.5 : The Tree View Control
 8.6 : The Rich Edit Control
 8.7 : The Date Picker Control
 8.8 : Month Calendar Control
 8.9 : Scrolling the View
Lesson 9 - Property Pages and Sheets

9.1 : Introducing Property Sheets
 9.2 : Creating the Property Sheet Demo Application
 9.3 : Running the Property Sheet Demo Application
Lesson 10 - ActiveX Concepts

10.1 : The Purpose of ActiveX

10.2 : Object Linking

10.3 : Object Embedding
 10.4 : Containers and Servers
 10.5 : Toward a More Intuitive User Interface
 10.6 : The Component Object Model  

10.7 : Automation
 10.8 : ActiveX Controls

Lesson 11 -  Building an ActiveX Control

11.1 : Creating a Rolling-Die Control

11.2 : Displaying the Current Value

11.3 : Reacting to a Mouse Click and Rolling the Die 

 11.4 : Creating a Better User Interface
 11.5 : Generating Property Sheets
Lesson 12 - Database Access

12.1 : Understanding Database Concepts

12.2 : Creating an ODBC Database Program
 12.3 : Choosing Between ODBC and DAO
 12.4 : OLE DB

Lesson -8:Common Controls
8.8-Month Calendar Control

The month calendar control used by the date picker is compact and neat. Putting one into Common is very simple. Add a call to CreateMonth() to CCommonView::OnCreate() and add the function to the class. Add a resource ID for IDC_MONTH, too; then add the code for CreateMonth(). Here it is:

void CCommonView::CreateMonth()
{
m_month.Create(WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | DTS_SHORTDATEFORMAT,
CRect(470,260,650,420), this, IDC_MONTH);
}

You can use many of the DTS_ styles when creating your month calendar control. In addition, the CMonthCalCtrl class, of which m_month is an object, defines special styles to be used with month calendar controls. Table 10.7 lists these special styles.


Table 8.6 Month Calendar Control Styles
 
Style Description
MCS_DAYSTATE Instructs the control to send MCN_GETDAYSTATE messages to the application so that special days (such as holidays) can be displayed in bold.
MCS_MULTISELECT Enables the user to choose a range of dates.
MCS_NOTODAY Suppresses the Today date at the bottom of the control. The user can display today’s date by clicking the word Today.
MCS_NOTODAY_CIRCLE Suppresses the circling of today’s date.
MCS_WEEKNUMBERS Numbers each week in the year from 1 to 52 and displays the numbers at the left of the calendar.

A number of member functions enable you to customize the control, setting the colors, fonts, and whether weeks start on Sunday or Monday. You will be most interested in GetCurSel(), which fills a COleDateTime, CTime, or LPSYSTEMTIME with the currently selected date.
Build and test Common again and really exercise the month control this time. (Make the window larger if you can’t see the whole control.) Try moving from month to month. If you’re a long way from today’s date, click the Today down at the bottom to return quickly. This is a neat control and should quickly replace the various third-party calendars that so many developers have been using.

 
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