Create some button controls as listbox's children window, put its on the foreground of the listbox, you have to process some messages to change the control's data, coordinates, etc.

class MyListBoxView : public CFormView { ... CListBox m_wndListBox; MyListBoxView::MyListBoxView() : CFormView( IDC_LIST1 ) // ID is a LISTBOX control in another .rc file { Create( WC_LISTBOX, L"My devices", WS_CAPTION | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, CRect( 0, 0, 0, 0 ), this, IDC_LIST1, ( CCreateContext* )NULL ); **Create** fails at: if (!_AfxCheckDialogTemplate(m_lpszTemplateName, TRUE)) { ASSERT(FALSE); // invalid dialog template name I have tried to do w_wndListBox.Create(...), but CFormView::Create is protected and can't be called from outside. I have also tried to call Create in MyListBoxView's ctor, using the static call form (CFormView::Create), but that fails because Create, of course, is not a static and you can't call non-statics from a static. So I must have the class and object structure wrong for these calls not to work.