Overview: Resource Editors

Home Page (Resource Editors) | How Do I ... Topics

The Resource editors share techniques and interfaces to create and modify application resources quickly and easily. You can use the Resource editors to create new resources, modify existing resources, copy existing resources, and delete old resources. The Resource editors are functionally consistent for ease of use.

You can edit all of the Microsoft Windows resources that your application uses. These resources include:

When you create or open a resource, the appropriate editor opens automatically. You can also open a resource (.rc) file in text format.

The Resource editors have many commands and procedures in common. For example, once you learn how to create and open a dialog box, you know the steps for creating and opening any of the other resources.

What do you want to know more about?

What do you want to do?

View resources

Create new resources

Use resource templates

Copy resources

Edit resources

Open a resource file as text

Use property pages