Programming Windows, Fifth Edition

• Book ID: 125972963
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

**ISBN:**1-57231-995-X
**Publisher:**Microsoft Press
**Edition:**November 11, 1998
**Number of pages:**1479
Link:http://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/
Description:
Коротко и по-русски:
Известная книга авторитенго автора, в которой описывается Windows API. Все примеры в книги соместимы с юникодом. Автор обещает, что книга позволит писать как в Windows 98, так и в Windows XP.
Short description:
Programming Windows is a tutorial for programmers wishing to write applications for Windows using the C programming language and the native Win32 application programming interface (API). Programs written using this book run under every version of Windows from Windows 95 through Windows XP and beyond. Knowledge of C is required.
Large description:
This book shows you how to write programs that run under Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0,
and Windows NT 5.0. These programs are written in the C programming language and use the native Windows
application programming interfaces (APIs). As I'll discuss later in this chapter, this is not the only way to write
programs that run under Windows. However, it is important to understand the Windows APIs regardless of what
you eventually use to write your code.
As you probably know, Windows 98 is the latest incarnation of the graphical operating system that has become the
de facto standard for IBM-compatible personal computers built around 32-bit Intel microprocessors such as the 486
and Pentium. Windows NT is the industrial-strength version of Windows that runs on PC compatibles as well as
some RISC (reduced instruction set computing) workstations.
There are three prerequisites for using this book. First, you should be familiar with Windows 98 from a user's
perspective. You cannot hope to write applications for Windows without understanding its user interface. For this
reason, I suggest that you do your program development (as well as other work) on a Windows-based machine
using Windows applications.
Second, you should know C. If you don't know C, Windows programming is probably not a good place to start. I
recommend that you learn C in a character-mode environment such as that offered under the Windows 98 MS-DOS
Command Prompt window. Windows programming sometimes involves aspects of C that don't show up much in
character-mode programming; in those cases, I'll devote some discussion to them. But for the most part, you should
have a good working familiarity with the language, particularly with C structures and pointers. Some knowledge of
the standard C run-time library is helpful but not required.
Third, you should have installed on your machine a 32-bit C compiler and development environment suitable for
doing Windows programming. In this book, I'll be assuming that you're using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, which can
be purchased separately or as a part of the Visual Studio 6.0 package.
That's it. I'm not going to assume that you have any experience at all programming for a graphical user interface such
as Windows.

• Unicode windows programming
• API
• Windows API
• Win32
• WinAPI

✦ Subjects

Программирование, программы, базы данных