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"Charles is extremely intelligible author" - by Alex on 25-APR-2012
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Deep and in very understandable way Charles describes GDI layer.
I've read it almost 10 years ago and pretty often some things comes to my mind (I'm not a GUI developer but this book is more than just useful for understanding the concepts)
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"13 years old, and not showing it!" - by Marco on 27-OCT-2011
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I am one of those guys, mentioned by the Author, that comes from MS-DOS assembly language.
I left the Microsoft world early in my career and when I came back I couldn't understand what they were talking about any more. .NET? Managed C++? Where was the real Windows gone?
How does it work nowadays? Well, this book gave me the most refreshing answer.
Windows is still there and to programmers like me it works exactly as it did almost 20 years ago. Almost nothing has changed. The API are virtually the same.
I grabbed the freely available Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition and I could compile the code in this book almost without a hitch.
Well, the Express edition doesn't provide the resource editor, hence the .RC files have to be written with an old fashioned text editor and then imported into the Visual Studio project, but, hey, that's the way you learn things.
So, I know that I am going to write something totally obvious to middle-aged programmers, but if you really want to understand, first hand, how things work in Windows, this is the right place to start.

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