The 'win32' AOU calls are decent relative to themselves. If you understand their madness. For every positive call there is usually an anti call and a worker c

The 'win32' AOU calls are decent relative to themselves. If you understand their madness. For every positive call there is usually an anti call and a worker call. Open a handle, use the handle with its helper calls, close the handle. You must understand their 3 step pattern to all work. There are a few exceptions. But usually those are the sort of things where the system has given you a handle and you must deal with it with your calls to helper calls. In those cases usually the system handles the open/close part. Now you get into the COM/.NET/UWP stuff and the API gets a bit more fuzzy on that pattern. The win32 API is fairly consistent in its madness. So are the other API stacks they have come up with. But only in their own mad world. Also out of the documentation the older win32 docs are actually usually decently written and self consistent. The newer stuff not so much. If you have the displeasure of mixing APIs you are in for a rough ride as all of their calling semantics are different.