Property Sheets

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The Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) contains support for property sheets, also known as tab dialog boxes, in classes and . This family of articles explains how and when to use property sheets in your MFC applications. Topics include:

• Using property sheets in your application

• Adding controls to a property sheet

A property sheet is a special kind of dialog box that is generally used to modify the attributes of some external object, such as the current selection in a view. The property sheet has three main parts: the containing dialog box, one or more property pages shown one at a time, and a tab at the top of each page that the user clicks to select that page. Property sheets are useful for situations where you have a number of similar groups of settings or options to change. An example of a property sheet is the Project Settings dialog box in the integrated development environment. In this case, there are a number of different groups of options that need to be set. The property sheet allows a large amount of information to be grouped in an easily understood fashion.

Other articles in this family include:

• Property Sheets: Exchanging Data

• Property Sheets: Creating a Modeless Property Sheet

• Property Sheets: Handling the Apply Button