VB ships with controls giving you basic access to the features of the Windows Common Controls library (COMCTL32.DLL). But there's a lot more you can do with this library than the VB controls allow.

• vbAccelerator CoolMenu, Toolbar and Rebar Control
  • Quick Start 1 - Add a Rebar and a Toolbar to Your App
  • Quick Start 2 - Add a CoolMenu Support Your App
  • Explorer Style User Interface Cool Menu Sample.
  • Office 97 Style User Interface Cool Menu Sample.
  • Using the Toolbar with the vbAccelerator ImageList class and Resource files.
  • Using the Toolbar with the vbAccelerator Pager control.
  • The Toolbar Host Control and using Toolbars outside the Rebar. 30 May 1999
• TreeView Control from Dan Litwin. Supports Explorer Favourites and Outlook Folder list styles. 21 March 2000
• Image Lists
  • vbAccelerator ImageList control v1.4 and component 21 March 2000
  • Using the System Image List with (and without) vbAccelerator controls
  • Using Non-MS ImageLists and the System ImageList with Microsoft's ListView control - From Tom Esh
  • Using Non-MS ImageLists and the System ImageList with Microsoft's TreeView control - From Paul
• ComboBoxEx Owner Drawn Combo Box. The same functionality as the Owner Draw Combo List Box control, except using the COMCTL32.DLL ComboBoxEx control (so no List Boxes).
• vbAccelerator Tab Control 21 March 2000
• vbAccelerator Status Bar Control and the No-Status-Bar Status Bar Class 15 August 1999
• The ListView Control
  • &nbsp Customising the ListView Control - Loads of things you can do with a ListView, including background images, check boxes, header drag-drop, sorting etc. 10 January 1999
  • Adding InfoTips to Microsoft's ListView control - A simple subclassing technique to add Desktop style tips to any item in a ListView.
• &nbsp Flat Scroll Bars
• &nbsp A Header Control 25 August 1999
• &nbsp A Lightweight UpDown Control (33kb!) 25 August 1999
• &nbsp The Pager control 25 October 1998
• &nbsp HotKey controls allow your user to easily choose HotKey combinations.
• &nbsp A Lightweight Progress Bar Control (27kb)
  
• Find out which ComCtl32.Dll version you have in VB

Coming up:

• VB TreeView with IE Favourites style drawing options
• Owner-draw for the Tab Control including flat and DevStudio 6 style tabs
• Slider control with flat style drawing support
• Owner-draw for the ListView
• VB implementation of the ListView control
• Docking rebar (if it can be done!)

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Last updated: 21 March 2000