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ender · 01-16-2005, 09:31 AM

As far as I am aware, there is no C++ API available for XP. At the lowest point, there is the win32 apis, which have been around since Windows 95. These have kept pretty constant over the years (for backwards compatablity) and are generally the lowest level you can get. There have been many APIs that hide the nasties of win32 api programming, but generally call them at some point in time. MFC was such an abstraction, which is object oriented. The latest, although not really a pure layer, is .NET. I guess you'll need to either stick with the basics, or pick one of the following to go with. After you do that, you can then make a decision for book choices.

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ender Code Monkey Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 75	As far as I am aware, there is no C++ API available for XP. At the lowest point, there is the win32 apis, which have been around since Windows 95. These have kept pretty constant over the years (for backwards compatablity) and are generally the lowest level you can get. There have been many APIs that hide the nasties of win32 api programming, but generally call them at some point in time. MFC was such an abstraction, which is object oriented. The latest, although not really a pure layer, is .NET. I guess you'll need to either stick with the basics, or pick one of the following to go with. After you do that, you can then make a decision for book choices. __________________ while(1) fork();