i was making a button on my window ..but as soon it is made it disappears forever. iam just able to caught a glimpse of it.iam working in dev c++ i used this HWND hBtn = NULL; hBtn = CreateWindow("BUTTON","a", WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|BS_PUSHBUTTON, 50,50,100,25, hWnd, (HMENU)103, // NULL, hInstance,NULL); also i wrote this after creating my main window and before the while loop which runs continuously. can someone help thanks

any suggestions?

That looks fine to me. Can you post more code?