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Summary: This is what you are looking for.
Review: This is an absolutely golden book. Don't be intimidated by the page count or the title - this book is actually a very easy to use ground up tutorial in Win32 programming. He starts out talking about the basics and then slowly moves into more advanced topics.As always it's important to know what a book is NOT. This book is not a tutorial for writing windows applications, nor does it discuss MFC or most of the common methods used today for rapidly producing computer programs. This is not REALLY a reference book on win32 either. Instead it provides a tutorial-style documentation for the monstrous win32 API at its most fundamental levels. This book sets the standard for all other code written for any modern version of windows. It addresses real world issues and real world solutions to those problems (such as the chapter dedicated to making unicode friendly programs), as well as some historical issues (the difference between wParam and lParam). No manual is without its flaws. This book is a bit too braod spectrum in the detail levels. There are places in the book where he will delve into details that you could care less about, and there are points that he will put in two or three sentences and assume you understand, although you may not. Despite this, this book is essential to everyone writing code for Microsoft Windows (ANY version). You needn't read it cover to cover, but readiny section I (about 1/3 of the book) is essential. My one wish is that this book came in three volumes, if you haul it between home and school/office it gets to be buronsome. That's about all I can really complain about with this book.
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Summary: The book you've been lookin for!
Review: Was trying to find how to learn 2 things for years: Windows Programming and Winsock. All the tutorials I found were terrible... I went on IRC and asked what was a nice bood, they told me petzold... I'm a 16 years old guy with a passion for programming since 2 years when I started in school... This book was the best I ever saw about the subject, it is clear, it has a slow learning curve, but if u get something fast, it's easy to speed up... The best is the CD: I travel a lot and the book is just HUGE! I opened the book in france because I dont have a computer there, that's it! The CD has everything in a chm file which allows you to search which is really neat. In 2 words buy it!
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Summary: great if you want to know it all.
Review: well here is the deal. if you need to start writing windows programs yesterday then this is not the book for you. however, if you have some time to learn the subject in depth, this is the book for you. nuf said.
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Summary: The book that never stops helping
Review: Well this book is great, I can be bored,drunk,or in any mood I can get my job done. I love this book everything you need to know about windows programming in C is here, with in depth information about every area you want to program in windows from bitmaps to DLLs one of my number #1 books by my desk.
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Summary: Essential information on Windows Programming
Review: What can I say? It's Charles Petzold. I have a copy of every edition of this book ever written and it is always essential reading. This book is to Windows Programming what Kernighan and Ritchie is to C and what Stroutrup's book is to C++. Absolutely essential reading.
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