Creating dialog boxes manually in Visual Studio?

[HarbingTarbl]

I'm trying to write a small database application for a class assignment, I'm learning about the WinAPI from a website, unfortunately the guy who wrote the tutorials wrote all of his resource files himself... Which is as far as I know is impossible to do in Visual Studio. When I try to create a resource file it brings me to the windows forms/visual resource editor and I can't edit it myself. I have tried to use the windows forms but I can't get some things to work correctly, like layering and overlapped windows.

I need to have an edit box inside of a frame, but when I try to do that in the resource editor the frame active X control overlaps the text box active X control.
Is there a way for me to manually edit the resource file, so that I can be sure the dialog works the way I want it to, and not the way the resource editor wants it to?

[Lamblion]

If the resource file is not in your Solution Explorer, put it there and then double-cklic on it. This will open it for editing. You can also just open it from the File menu.

[HarbingTarbl]

When I double click on it it opens the "Resource View" and depending on it if is empty or not, asks me what kind of resource I want to add.

[Incubbus]

that is exactly what you want... get the controls out of the control´s library and drag them onto the dialog... (maybe you need to create one first)...


or do you mean to program the dialog and its controls while using the win32-api?...

[HarbingTarbl]

I meant editing the text inside the resource file, which is what I ended up doing anyway. Notepad++ even has a syntax highlighter for resource files, I had just wanted to know how to do it inside visual studio.

[Radioactive]

create them while running? :3