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I tend to use Windows as resource intensive dumb terminal that also lets me play fancy games now and then. Until recently I've been rather satisfied with that but am wanting to make a bit more use of it which brings me to subject of this post. A few suggestions of articles I've been looking for but have yet to find: 1) Using the Visual Studio command line tools instead of the IDE (otherwise known as: when vi is just good enough for me). 2) More Non-MFC oriented tutorials (which are becoming harder and harder to come by). I tend to want to understand the Win32 SDK before relying on toolkits based on it. 3) Up to date tutorials on using the DirectX set of libraries (just looking at the sparse documentation makes me wonder why it is so needlessly complex). I'm not looking to write "mad g4m3z" but rather visualize data and possibly play around with sounds. I would write such articles myself once I've figured the various topics out but my experience lies more in the UNIX realm so I'm a fish out of water here. :confused: Sean
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I tend to use Windows as resource intensive dumb terminal that also lets me play fancy games now and then. Until recently I've been rather satisfied with that but am wanting to make a bit more use of it which brings me to subject of this post. A few suggestions of articles I've been looking for but have yet to find: 1) Using the Visual Studio command line tools instead of the IDE (otherwise known as: when vi is just good enough for me). 2) More Non-MFC oriented tutorials (which are becoming harder and harder to come by). I tend to want to understand the Win32 SDK before relying on toolkits based on it. 3) Up to date tutorials on using the DirectX set of libraries (just looking at the sparse documentation makes me wonder why it is so needlessly complex). I'm not looking to write "mad g4m3z" but rather visualize data and possibly play around with sounds. I would write such articles myself once I've figured the various topics out but my experience lies more in the UNIX realm so I'm a fish out of water here. :confused: Sean
NullStream wrote: 2) More Non-MFC oriented tutorials (which are becoming harder and harder to come by). I tend to want to understand the Win32 SDK before relying on toolkits based on it. If you can afford a book get Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, it uses C and the SDK....thats it :) When I started Windows programming I didn't see any really good tutorials/articles that helped much; most just confused me more. Good luck, James
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NullStream wrote: 2) More Non-MFC oriented tutorials (which are becoming harder and harder to come by). I tend to want to understand the Win32 SDK before relying on toolkits based on it. If you can afford a book get Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, it uses C and the SDK....thats it :) When I started Windows programming I didn't see any really good tutorials/articles that helped much; most just confused me more. Good luck, James
I have that book though it is rather dated and does not include any APIs other than Win95. AFAIK the author may have kicked the proverbial bucket so updates are probably not forthcomming. Sean
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I have that book though it is rather dated and does not include any APIs other than Win95. AFAIK the author may have kicked the proverbial bucket so updates are probably not forthcomming. Sean
NullStream wrote: AFAIK the author may have kicked the proverbial bucket so updates are probably not forthcomming. Unless it happened within the last month Charles is still alive and well :) I e-mailed him about something from the C# version of that book. James
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NullStream wrote: AFAIK the author may have kicked the proverbial bucket so updates are probably not forthcomming. Unless it happened within the last month Charles is still alive and well :) I e-mailed him about something from the C# version of that book. James
Probably a case of mistaken identity and fuzzy memory. I know one of the Microsoft Press authors expired though I can't remember which one. :P Sean
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I have that book though it is rather dated and does not include any APIs other than Win95. AFAIK the author may have kicked the proverbial bucket so updates are probably not forthcomming. Sean
No that was Kruglinski. (Inside Visual C++ guy) Died Paragliding... As a (not recently alas :( ) hang glider, I gotta admire the exit. Wish he were still around though.