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Is there an easy way to place a dialog resource template in a CExtControlBar?
Maybe also an example of a propertypage like dialog (tab control with
a changing dialog page).

best regards,
Alexander

Here is the FAQ article that may be helpful:

I know how to add a resizable control bar to my program but I do not know how to add a dialog into it

As for the tab control, you could use CExtTabPageContainerWnd. You can see how to use it in the ProfUIS_Controls sample (the page Tab Containers).

Thanks for the reference.
I tried it, as far as I understand. The text is a bit contradictionary.
It says: "dialog window inside the control bar".
The example code:
if( !m_wndInBarDlg.Create(
CYourDialog::IDD,
&m_wndResizableBar
)
)
{
TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndInBarDlg\n");
return -1;
}
m_wndInBarDlg.ShowSizeGrip( FALSE );

I think your code assumes that it is outside the
and m_wndInBarDlg refers to the resizable control bar.

When I implement it in a CExtControlBar::CreateDlgCtrlBar function,
The dialog shows at application start-up, as a regular modeless dialog.
It seems to ignore that I gave it the CExtControlBar as a parent window.

My code is:
int CDlgCtrlBar::CreateDlgCtrlBar(CFrameWnd* pParentWnd, UINT nDialogTemplateID)
{
    if(    !Create(
        NULL, // _T("Optional control bar caption"),
        pParentWnd,
        ID_VIEW_RESIZABLEBAR_DLG,
        WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|CBRS_TOP|CBRS_GRIPPER
        |CBRS_TOOLTIPS
        |CBRS_FLYBY
        |CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC
        |CBRS_HIDE_INPLACE
        )
        )
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create m_wndResizableBarDlg\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

    if (!m_Dialog.Create(nDialogTemplateID, this))
    {
        TRACE0("Failed to create the Dialog\n");
        return -1;        // fail to create
    }

    m_Dialog.ShowSizeGrip(FALSE);

    EnableDocking( CBRS_ALIGN_ANY );
    DockControlBar(AFX_IDW_DOCKBAR_RIGHT, 2, pParentWnd);
    return 0;
}

Any sugestions?
Maybe the example can be made more clear with actual code.

Best regards,
Alexander.

Please check the dialog template in the resources. It should have the Child and None values for the style and border parameters.