Hey, i''ve been working with OpenGl and DirectX for a little while now on windows machines, and i understand how to create windowed apps with them and program for them. I was wondering where/what the best place to learn just programming windowed apps is. I want to learn to write standard apps for windows like a word pad, or a art program or even creating a 3d modeling program. I know i should learn COM and MFC, but anything else i should be looking for?? where should i start?? I''ve tried working through Mastering Visual C++ 6 a few times, but its a just a little to over my head. So help me out, all suggestions and/or tales of failures/triumphs from experience with this material are and will be greatly appreciated. thanks again in advance guys, --Ninj4D4n

Practice!

Kuphryn

well, first of all you should learn the win32 API. read tutorials and practice until you feel comfortable with it.

there are some great win32 tutorials over at gametutorials.com

Winprog.org has a good tutorial

MSDN will be very useful