Docking Bar on Dialog

Introduction: Normal Dialog doesn't support creating docking bars on it. This article explains how to create a docking bar on Dialog

Creating Docking bar: CFrameWnd is a MFC class supports docking bars. Creating Docking bars is easy with CFrameWnd. Generally CFrameWnd used to create SDI or MDI applications.
Follow These steps to create a Docking bar in dialog.

1) Create Dialog bases application using MFC App wizard
2) Derive a new class from CFrameWnd and declare a member variable for CDialogbar.
3) Create Dialog Bar on frame window's OnCreatec function.
4) Call enable docking functions CDialogBar and CFrameWnd
5) Create a member variable of type Frame in main Dialog class
6) On Dialog initialization create Frame with WS_CHILD style

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