What is BCGSuite for MFC?

BCGSuite is a product that extends Visual Studio 2008-2022 MFC functionality. The new MFC version included in Visual Studio 2008 is based on BCGControlBar Pro technology, but some significant library components such as Chart, Grid, Calendar, Editor and others are not included in the latest MFC version. BCGSuite includes these components as well as many other professionally-designed GUI controls.

BCGSuite library has more than 100 thoroughly designed, tested and fully documented MFC extension classes. Our components can be easily incorporated into your application and save you hundreds of development and debugging hours.

Highlighted product features:

Chart control

• 30+ 2D and 3D chart types
• Unlimited number of series
• Unlimited number of data points in series
• Ability to display different series types on the same chart area
• Realtime charting
• History modes
• Data points customizable appearance (markers, labels and colors)
• Smart labels support
• Data binding

Calendar (Planner) control

• Microsoft Outlook style
• Daily, work week, weekly, monthly and schedule views
• Appointment and scheduling
• Appointment reminders
• Recurring appointments
• Concurrent appointments
• Multiple resources support
• Multi-Day and All Day Events

Grid and Report controls

• Various cell types: text, numeric, combo box, date/time, color picker, check box and others
• Sparkline cells
• Custom-type cells
• Virtual mode
• Hierarchical grids
• Rows grouping
• Built-in field chooser
• Filters
• Merged cells
• Frozen rows and columns
• Conditional formatting: data bars, color scales and icon sets
• Data binding

Advanced Edit control

• Visual Studio-like code editor
• Syntax highlighting support
• XML-based schemas for the language definition
• Outlining (collapsible blocks) support
• IntelliSense support
• Color blocks (block selection support)
• Line numbering
• Markers support
• Error indication support

Gauges

• Various types of the gauges that allow the developer to create a digital dashboards
• Circular gauges
• Linear gauges
• Text, image and color indicators
• Digital numeric indicators
• Knob and switch controls
• Circular progress indicator
• Analog clock and digital watch
• Gauges visual container with layout support
• WYSIWYG Visual Designer for Gauges

Diagrams

• Unlimited number of diagram shapes and connectors
• Various predefined diagram blocks
• Table diagram blocks
• Smart straight and curved diagram connectors with 5 types of customizable arrows
• Zoom In/Zoom Out support
• Ability to save and load diagram to/from XML

Windows UI Tiles

• Windows 8/10-like tiles control: suitable for a wide range of UI like application start page, activity monitor and many others.
• Large, regular and wide tiles
• Tile groups
• Rectangular or rounded tile shapes
• Built-in caption with navigation and custom buttons
• Horizontal and vertical layouts
• Live tiles

Skinned Dialogs and Forms

• Fully-themed dialog content, borders and caption
• Auto-theming of all dialog controls
• DWM ("aero" or "mica") support
• Built-in layout for resizable dialogs
• Lightbox (Windows 11 Smoke-like) dialogs
• Dialogs with expandable areas
• Themed property sheets and wizards

Visual Designer

• Allows to create top-quality digital dashboards and diagrams using the new WYSIWYG design tool in minutes
• Supports all our gauges, diagram shapes, chart and grid controls
• Allows to add a custom gauge/control
• XML data format

System Requirements