Windows programming resources?

[ParaDoXx]

Below is a nice tech site, with tech books on various stuff.

http://www.freetechbooks.com/

[alexdevmaster]

Below is a nice tech site, with tech books on various stuff.

http://www.freetechbooks.com/

thanks for the link, I already found something on it worth reading.

[psybuck2002us]

Below is a nice tech site, with tech books on various stuff.

http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Yow, this is a wicked site. If u have any more great links, jus send it on. Peace out.

[bluwulf]

Yeh...great link.............

[ParaDoXx]

np, I use that site myself. There are a few other sites though, if you want stuff in particular. I have a few links for articles etc etc. But that is probably one of the better ones i have come accoress. Hope it is of some use.

- Para

[crosswire]

Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days is a good book, it is not available online but you could try borrowing it from people including other books like Programming in Visual Basic 4.0 by Julia Case Bradley & Anita C. Millspaugh (I got that one off a ship about 3 years ago but I have not read it off yet)

Sample content from Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 Days
Day 14
Learn how easy it is to build a database application using an ODBC database (See CRecordset and CDatabase)
Day 20
Learn how applications communicate with each other using the Winsock interface and how you can make your application communicate over a network (See MFC CAsyncSocket)

There is also stuff on multitasking (thread) and windows dialogs.

See contents here
http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672312409#

Using C++ to make windows application may require learning one of the helper libraries, like MFC (Microsoft Foundational Classes) . I am not sure how popular this is in Jamaica, but the different windows helper libraries have a common understanding, ie it is easy enough to learn a new library when you understand the old one, like migrating from MFC to .NetFramework *maybe Leo could correct me here*.

You can learn MFC from MSDN, the help documents, I think you can download it too. However, when learning online, always use as much sources as possible. It helps to understand the topics. The source mentioned before are highly rated. Step into VB .Net Web Services with http://www.learnxmlws.com/book/ and http://www.learnxmlws.com/book/chapters/chapter13.htm I am over-excited maybe because I am learning something new, web services. Strangely enough I do not care that it is in VB and I use only C++. I may try the VB thing.

[bluwulf]

Here is another link for free books : LINK

[alexdevmaster]

Here is another lonk for free books : LINK

thanks wulf, some interesting php resources are on that page.

[crosswire]

Just came across this link on http://winprog.org/tutorial/ on Win32 API

On http://winprog.org/tutorial/apivsmfc.html , the autor also talks about his experience with Win32 API. My experience with MFC, I would say that the documentation covers everything, however, some areas are hard to catch. I learnt it while it explained most concepts about Win32 API as it basically encapsulates Win32 API, and it is easy to use... from my limited knowledge.

@nigelt
Still if you want a basic explanation of things in the Win32 API, like message puping, I will glady give one to you. Plus many of us here on TJ will help you out.

I assumed that you googled the Win32 API, so your good, or you switched to something else like web programming, still, any questions? and what course did you take?

[death_knight]

i did this way back in the day. during my associate degree course its realy too low level though i mean its alot of code to just write a standard window. but i can tell you it was fun. alot of fun. i only made 2 win api apps though, i built out the text editor application that they use as example and added modules to it. and i made a game sprite he could responde to keyboard input [dir keys] and walked the respective direction, php took over my time cuz of work. but i would recomend these tutes to ne body interested in win devel