Download BCGControlBar Pro v31.3 for MFC

BCGControlBar ("Business Components Gallery ControlBar") is an MFC extension library that allows you to create Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio-like applications with full customization options (ribbons, customizable toolbars, menus, and more) and a rich set of professionally-designed GUI controls such as chart, calendar, grid, editor, Gantt, and many others.

BCGControlBar library has more than 500 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.

Microsoft Office-style Ribbon Bar

• Identical look and feel to the Microsoft Office Ribbon Bar
• Office 2007-2024 visual themes
• Windows-like ("scenic") theme
• More than 20 types of ready-to-use controls
• Advanced WYSIWYG Ribbon Designer
• Ribbon Backstage View with built-in and custom pages
• Classic and simplified modes
• Customization of ribbon controls, Quick Access toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts
• Touch and mouse input modes
• Built-in Ribbon commands search
• Ribbon mini-toolbar and context menus

Visual Themes

• More than 40 built-in visual themes
• Microsoft Office 2000-2024 look
• Visual Studio 6.0-2026 look
• Native Windows theme
• Windows 10 or later accent color support
• Windows 7 or later DWM (such as "aero" or "mica") support
• High-contrast modes support
• Custom visual themes

Visual Studio-like Docking Panes

• The advanced docking algorithms allow you to set up the docking windows as you like
• Docking to an application window and MDI children
• Autohide mode
• Tabbed docking panes
• Floating panes
• Docking pane containers
• Visual Studio-like docking markers
• Persistent docking pane layout

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 have customizable appearances (markers, labels, and colors)
• Smart labels support
• Data binding

Customizable Toolbars and Menus

• Microsoft Office and Visual Studio-like customization
• Persistent toolbars and menu customization state
• User-defined toolbars, menus, labels, and icons
• Keyboard shortcuts customization
• User-defined external tools customization
• Built-in toolbar icon editor

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
• Tracking changes bar
• Current line indicator
• Markers support
• Error indication support

Gauges

• There are various types of gauges that allow the developer to create digital dashboards
• Circular gauges
• Linear gauges
• Text, image, and color indicators
• Digital numeric indicators
• Knob, button, and switch controls
• Circular progress indicator
• Analog clock and digital watch
• Gauges visual container with layout support
• "State of the art" visual effects such as shadow or glow
• 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 diagrams to/from XML

Windows UI Tiles

• Windows 8/10-like tiles control: suitable for a wide range of UIs 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
• DPI-awareness (the dialogs are automatically scaled when you are moving them to monitor with other DPI)
• Built-in layout for resizable dialogs
• Lightbox (Windows 11 smoke-like) dialogs
• Dialogs with expandable areas
• Themed property sheets and wizards

Visual Designer

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

Visual Studio Integration

• Our Integration Wizard sets up VC++ directories and builds all required libraries and DLLs
• BCGControlBar AppWizard allows you to create Microsoft Office or Visual Studio-style applications in seconds. The most popular components of the library persist as the options of AppWizard