In this section, we will deal with programming on the Windows Operating System; the world's most common Desktop operating system. With this system, we start with simple Windows specific console programs to more sophisticated and common WinAPI applications. Dealing with these Windows Programming tutorials requires that you have basic knowledge of C and C++. From handling Windows specific controls like the Graphical User Interface (GUI), to Event Handling and more general task, they will be covered in these tutorials.
Without doubt, as you would have noticed Windows is a common platform, and as an operating system, the capabilities of what you can program is vast with the built in tools with some I have just mentioned. They are key components of the operating system, and knowing how they come together within a program framework is vital knowledge.
Not only we will be going through basic Windows software development, we will also be going through creating our own static and dynamic libraries with Visual Studio. As the libraries are a strong component of any operating system, you will see the advantages of knowing how these things work when you go toward the more advanced programming tasks.
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Simple Program using WinAPI
Hello World... Windows Style
In this article we cover the basics of writing Windows-specific programs using the WinAPI in C. We will start with a basic GUI function.
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DLL Part Two - During Runtime
Load and Unload a DLL file when needed...
In this article, we go through loading a DLL file dynamically during runtime. Also going through how to manage and unload it as you wish. Simple C example to follow and source code available
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