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To: kirkvold@deepcove.com
Subject: Re: Moving from DOS C to Windows C++
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.lang.c++
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In article <44hkgc$469@Kaos.deepcove.com> you write:
>I'm looking for a few tips from others who have moved to Windows-based 
>C++ coding (recommended books, documents, etc).

I am currently in the throes of moving from DOS to Windows myself.  I 
have found the Microsoft Systems Journal to be a invaluable help.  It is 
a monthly magazine, about $5 (although you can subscribe for about 
$2.50).  As far as books go, Charles Petzold's Programming Windows 3.1 is 
very useful and fairly basic.  If you're going for Windows 95, though, 
there may be better texts available.

>I have some experience with realtime systems, but I also need an idea of 
>how to move from linear programming to structuring code around window's 
>message loop thingamajig.

The last few months of MSJ (Microsoft Systems Journal) have been sort of 
a primer series by Jeff Prosise.  These were (I think) MSJ June thru Sept 
1995.  There was another VERY good article about the messaging system in 
about the August issue, I think.

>We use borland 3.1 and 4.0 at work, but I was thinking of grabbing VC++ 
>2.2, so I could do win95 stuff.  However, I've heard that Microsoft has 
>started on VC++ 3.0.  Any dates/info on it?

I use VC++ 1.5 & 2.0
VC++ 4.0 (not 3.0) was released last week.  Since the MFC (Microsoft 
Foundation Classes) library was version 3.2 for VC++ 2.2, Microsoft 
decided to promote them both to 4.0 so that it would be easier to keep 
track of the version numbers.

If you get any information from others, please CC: me a copy - I'm still 
learning too!

Thanks.