As you've seen in preceding chapters, the Win32 API for Microsoft Windows 95 supplies a lot of new common controls. In Windows 95, the showcase for many of these new controls and for several of the new common dialog boxes is Windows Explorer. Because Windows Explorer closely follows the Windows 95 user interface design guidelines and because it includes a variety of new common controls, many developers are likely to use it as a model for creating applications based on the new operating system.
This chapter builds on the previous chapters by pulling together the new common controls into an Explorer-like application that displays real estate listings for houses. We'll look at two samples: CHICOAPP, the original C version of the application; and MFCEXP, the MFC-based version. (Please note that CHICOAPP and MFCEXP are not user interface extensions. Chapter 13 will cover Windows 95 user interface extensions.)