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> "Too bad win32 is such a finicky and verbose API that's painful to use for anything beyond the simplest of dialogs. I tried. The MSDN documentation doesn't qu

> "Too bad win32 is such a finicky and verbose API that's painful to use for anything beyond the simplest of dialogs. I tried. The MSDN documentation doesn't quite cut it. TheOldNewThing by Raymond Chen is a must-read to get it right." If it's helpful, I'd like to mention that Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows" has been pretty much the reference for writing Win32 apps since the '90s. (It's the same person that wrote "Code" and "The Annotated Turing".) You probably want the 5th edition as that's the last pure Win32 version; the 6th edition seems to be oriented towards C# based WinRT apps.

ripley12 5y ago
I got started with Win32 programming 2 years ago using the 5th edition of Programming Windows. It's great, but it did feel like it was missing a few things. For example, it doesn't cover disk I/O at all. I found that Pavel Yosifovich's "Windows 10 System Programming" was an excellent complement to Petzold; it fills in a lot of gaps, and it's quite recent which is nice (there were some bits in Programming Windows that would be dropped if it were rewritten today).