jobobshishkabob

Ive read tutorials and books on programming, but all were for console apps...


im having a hard time finding one... does any one know of a good tutorial on programming windows apps? or even a good book.

thanks

Mjordan2nd

Windows 98 Programming is what I learned off of. I find Herbert Schildt to be an excellent writer, but that book may be a bit outdated now.

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DaWei

MSDN has a number of sample programs that will break you in relatively gently.

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Cache

A few tutorial links:

http://www.foosyerdoos.fsnet.co.uk/

http://www.stromcode.com/modules.php...&op=view&tid=1

http://www.functionx.com/win32/index.htm

http://www.relisoft.com/win32/index.htm

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

I think the 'StormCode' and 'theForger's tutorials are the easiest to pick up the basics from.

EDIT: I don't want to hijack this thread, but since it's still kinda on-topic: does anyone know if the following book is any good:

Programming Windows, 5th Edition

nnxion

Cache, yeah it's a great book, a bit too extensive on unicode though, but other than that it's excellent. I have an ebook (pdf) if you want to try it, you can then buy it if you think it looks good.

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Cache

That's great Thanks, nnxion.

Mad_guy

If you download the Microsoft Platform SDK (and the free visual c++ toolkit, both of which I highly recommend (and they are both free)), you will find many helpful samples covering a range of topics (DHCP, Winsock, COM, media players, etc.)

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