Re: Learning the win32 API

From: AxessTerminated (AxessTerminated_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:25:02 -0800

I knew it was large...I guess I just didn't know the extent of it all. Thanks
for the replies, I'll check out the books sometime. As for more specifics:
Networking, Multithreading, I/O, and messenging.

Thanks
A_T

"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" wrote:

> "AxessTerminated" <AxessTerminated@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:919B26FC-F5B9-45E4-ADFE-304DDEF17AD6@microsoft.com...
> > I'm looking for a comprehensive tutorial on the Windows API.
>
> The API is _huge_. It includes support for windowing, drawing, interprocess
> communication, a component object model, multi-threading and
> synchronization, networking, database access, I/O, telephony, multimedia,
> messaging, speech recognition and speech synthesis etc. Further some of
> these APIs have a native procedural slant common to C language development
> as well as higher level wrappers - MFC, COM, ATL
>
> Unfortunately, there is no easy way to attack the whole of it.
>
> If you go here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vctutor98/html/tutorhm.asp?frame=true
>
> you will find several tutorials. The Scribble tutorial is as good a place to
> start as any if your focus is desktop applications written in C++.
>
> If there is something in particular that you want to focus on, post again
> with the details. Someone may be able to point you in a direction.
>
> Regards,
> Will
>
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