How to hilight or bold an item in CTreeCtrl/CTreeView? There is no real difference between CTreeCtrl and CTreeView. You need to use an owner draw tree control. Takeover the NM_CUSTOMDRAW message, and it will allow you to change the font, brush, etc. of each individual item. You don’t need to do any owner draw if [...]

Another title: How to use a derived CTreeCtrl in a CTreeView? It is similar with this article: “How to use an derived CListCtrl in CListView” or “How do I subclass the CListCtrl part of a CListView Class?“. Just like CListView, there is no CTreeCtrl to subclass in CTreeView. The CTreeView is the subclass of the [...]