BCGSuite for MFC full changelog

We have implemented Visual Studio 2026 support for both retail and evaluation product versions. The pre-built evaluation libraries and DLLs for Visual Studio 2026 are fully tested and uploaded to our servers. If you don't have the active product subscription but would like to verify your product built with one of the former versions of our libraries in Visual Studio 2026, please download the 30-day fully functional evaluation version.
The new class CBCGPVisualManagerVS2026 implements a Visual Studio 2026-like theme (see screenshot). From now on, you can easily add a new, fresh look to your existing application using just one line of code. The key features of this new visual theme are:
Modern, Fluent UI-inspired look.
10+ ready-to-use color themes (see screenshot).
User-defined themes (see screenshot).
The docking pane pin/unpin buttons have a new look (see screenshot).
The new highlightable toolbar grippers have a fresh design (see screenshot).
Checkboxes and radio buttons with a larger size and contrast look (see screenshot).
The active docking panes, tabs, and MDI children are surrounded by accent-colored borders (see screenshot).
Small gap between the toolbar rows (see screenshot).
BCGP_VISUAL_THEME_VS_2026_LIGHT, BCGP_VISUAL_THEME_VS_2026_DARK and others were added to the BCGP_VISUAL_THEME enumeration. For your convenience, we have added this new theme to the BCGControlBar Pro Application Wizards (see screenshot). Although this theme was designed for the toolbar-based application, you can also use it in the ribbon-based UI (see screenshot). Our sample RibbonGadgets demonstrates this. Please look at BCGPVisualStudioGUIDemo, BCGPControls and other examples and samples to examine this new appearance.
Controls:
CBCGPTreeCtrlEx: Implemented the vertical selection bars (located on the left side of the selected item—see screenshot). By default, this bar is drawn only in Office 2021-2024, Visual Studio 2026 and native Windows themes, but you can specify its visibility

In this release, we have added the Visual Studio 2026 support (retail product version only), implemented a preliminary version of the Visual Studio 2026 visual manager, introduced a new step progress bar, and added other new features and improvements.

In this release, we have added automatic icon inversing in the dark themes, a new SVG Sprite Generator tool, improved visual themes, introduced new and enhanced controls, and added other new features and improvements.

Ribbon Bar:
CBCGPRibbonCustomizationOptions: A new member m_bAddSubItemsToTreePanel specifies whether Ribbon control sub-items should be added to the panel node of the customization tree (TRUE by default).
CBCGPRibbonBar::ShowBackstageView has a new, optional parameter, nSubPage. This parameter specifies a subpage to activate (CBCGPRibbonBackstageViewItemPropertySheet only).
CBCGPRibbonColorButton: Improved behavior of the selected color; when SetSelectedColor was called with parameter CLR_NONE, no color is selected now on the dropped-down color palette.
CBCGPRibbonBar: A new virtual method GetExportedFileDefaultName allows you to specify the customization data file default name. By default, this name is the same as the application name.
Toolbars and Menus:
Improved toolbar editing: now, you can specify the common attributes, such as image lists or toolbar names, in the Toolbar Editor, and these attributes will be automatically loaded by the framework (see screenshot).
Added support for the menu item data in the menu bar import and export methods (CBCGPToolbarMenuButton::CreateFromMenu and CBCGPToolbarMenuButton::CreateMenu).
Dialogs and Forms:
CBCGPMessageBox: A new static member m_nTextCalculationStep specifies the text layout calculation tolerance (in pixels, 10 by default). Specify a larger value if you have message boxes with long texts to optimize the dialog initialization time.
Improved appearance of dialog controls when the user specified the custom Windows text size. All controls have the same font size as the parent dialog font.
MDI Windows and Tabs:
CBCGPMDITabParams: A new member m_bBalancedGroupLayout specifies whether the MDI tabbed groups have the same size after creating a new tabbed group. Please take a look at the MDITabsDemo sample to see this new feature in action.
CBCGPAppOptions: A new member m_bAutoChangeMDITabsStyle specifies whether MDI tabs style should be changed upon the visual theme changing (e.g., in Office 2007-2010 themes, MDI tabs ar

This release includes auto-hide scroll bars, chart control improvements, graphics manager resources serialization and other new features and improvements.

This release includes auto-hide scroll bars, chart control improvements, graphics manager resources serialization and other new features and improvements.

This release includes auto-hide scroll bars, chart control improvements, graphics manager resources serialization and other new features and improvements.

This release includes auto-hide scroll bars, chart control improvements, graphics manager resources serialization and other new features and improvements.

This release includes Windows Application Driver support, touch-friendly date-time pickers, property sheet page swipe gesture support, improved edit syntax highlighting, enhanced stock chart and other new features and improvements.

This release includes context menu customization for the Ribbon-based applications, themed rebar, improved high-contrast mode support and other new features and improvements.