Tell me good books for learning Win32 API programming?

Programming in windows using C++


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Tell me good books for learning Win32 API programming?
Win32 API programming only requires C, not necessarily C++ skills. The absolute best book is "programming Windows" by Charles Petzold (the definitive guide) at 1500 pages. That book has so many well-documented examples for almost anything.





Because the Win32 API is not the easiest or quickest way to program things, frameworks/libraries have been added. The Microsoft foundation class (MFC) makes a lot of tasks, especially user interfaces, easier, and it is object-oriented (which Win32 is not) to work with Visual C++.





The .Net Framework made the Win32 API even less visible. So there is a clear trend towards hiding the "raw" Win32 API.





Earlier Windows game developers used the Direct-X API combined with the Win32 API to build game software. Direct-X has become more powerful (now at version 10) in covering more functions, and frameworks such as XNA help to make game building easier and more fun.





But even now there are many who say that writing a few Win32 API programs in C or C++ is a very valuable way to learn about programming.
Reply:If you want to learn in depth do not follow any single book


better to use MSDN online, refer http://msdn.microsoft.com





MSDN is best place to learn microsoft technologies.





I hope this will help you, if you can get its CD then install it and it will help you a lot, in getting online help





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