I think you can have some MFC-feature-pack features by implementing OnApplicationLook
on your base CDialog
(check Step 4 on this page). It might be better to implement the whole OnApplicationLook
method, but you can test your application simply by adding this to OnInitDialog
:
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007::SetStyle(CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007::Office2007_Silver);
CMFCVisualManager::SetDefaultManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007));
CDockingManager::SetDockingMode(DT_SMART);
RedrawWindow(NULL, NULL, RDW_ALLCHILDREN | RDW_INVALIDATE | RDW_UPDATENOW | RDW_FRAME | RDW_ERASE);