mackenga

Considering the way I rant about Windows at any available opportunity, this will be a bit of a weird question, but how can I get started writing Windows applications?

I'm a Unix man with experience of Tcl/Tk, C, C++, Java, Perl, and a few other (less helpful, probably) languages. I've done socket programming in all of the above, CGI programming in many of the above, used curses and programming for X Window. I can chuck together useful little GUI apps using Tcl/Tk easily, but of course these are a little limited by the performance of code written in an extremely high level interpreted language.

Don't get me wrong; I love Unix, and if I could stay here forever writing software for my own use and to give away for free, I would, but I have some ideas for small saleable programs which would be best on Windows - but I don't know how to write a GUI app for Windows in a compiled language.

Any tips would be very much appreciated.