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Microsoft web sites

Windows development - links & books

• Also on this page Microsoft hosted development info / MFC / UseNet / sysinternals / Win32
• Starting point The MSDN Online Support
  Author's home pages
  
• Martin Heller's Windows Programming Page
• Andrew Schulman's Windows Page
  Book sources
  
• The "Undocumented" Bookstore
• O'Reilly Windows books
• How to find FAQs on programming in Windows
  
• Microsoft Visual C/C++ Home In depth training
  
• Win32 FAQ
• Microsoft Press
  
• Internet Resources for Windows Developers(@ r2m)
  Books - MFC
  
• Programming Windows 95 with MFC (Jeff Prosise)
• Microsoft Foundation Class 4 Bible (Pandolfi, Oliver, Wolski) ISBN 1-57169-021-2 Books - User interface design
  
• The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design; Microsoft Press ISBN 1-55615-679-0
  
• Visual Interface Design for Windows by Virginia Howlett [1996]; Wiley ISBN 0-471-13419-8.
  
• MSDN : The Internet Client SDK
  Books - Creating online help
  
• Designing Windows 95 Help by Mary Deaton and Cheryl Lockett Zubak [1996]; ISBN 0-7897-0362-9.
  
• Developing Online Help for Windows 95 by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe Welinske [1996]; ISBN 1-85032-211-2.
• Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit [1995]; Microsoft Press ISBN 1-55615-892-0.
  Device Drivers
  
• NT device drivers - Dekker & Newcomer
• MSDN : The Driver Development Kit (DDK)

WIN32 API development

• Key resource MSDN : The Platform SDK provides tools, headers, libs, and sample code to build Win32 applications as well as information, news, links and downloads. Support is available.
• MSDN Win32 Platform SDK : Win32 API, Functions by category.
• Programming Windows 95 Charles Petzold (Microsoft Press)
• Advanced Windows Jeffrey Richter (Microsoft Press)
• Inside Windows 95 Adrian King (Microsoft Press)
• Unauthorized Windows 95 Andrew Schulman (IDG Books)
• Win32 Programming Brent Rector and Joseph Newcomer (Addison-Wesley)
• See also UseNet Microsoft groups
• Microsoft - Win32 Development support
  
• Microsoft - Differences in Win32 API implementations
  
• InstallShield - special tool for developing install programs
  
• Nu Mega - debugging tools
  



Microsoft FTP

• ftp from Microsoft site with directory map
• See also ...Windows Development Magazines (especially MSJ)
  

COM Automation

• MSDN COM, DCOM : Microsoft Component Services: A Technology Overview
• Platform SDK reference COM COM+
  Books - COM,OLE
  
• Essential COM by Don Box
• Effective COM by Don Box, Keith Brown, Tim Ewald & Chris Sells. support
• MS Office
  • MSDN : Office 2000 VB Programmer's Guide Object Models
  • www.officevba.com
• COM at : Google, Yahoo.

Windows Development ListServers

• NTDEV - Windows NT Device Drivers To subscribe, send "SUBSCRIBE NTDEV" in the body of a message to Majordomo@atria.com.
• NTIFS - Windows NT Installable File Systems To subscribe, send "SUBSCRIBE NTDEV" in the body of a message to Majordomo@atria.com.
• Also on this page...UseNet

Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)

• See also C/C++ links - Class Libraries MFC books
  
• codeguru.com - MFC Source book
• Intro to MFC programming with Visual C++, v1.5
  
• MFC FAQ (by Stingray Software - VERY big)
  
• Virtual C++ library - many C++ links, inc links to C++ tutorials for C programmers
  
• MFC at Google

Windows NT info ,95,98 info

• Yahoo Windows 2000 NT 95 98
• Deja News NT 95 98
• Unix utilities Cygnus Virtually Unix
• Computer Hope 3.x 95 98 NT
• www.windows98.org
  
• WinDrivers, WinFiles.
• Stan Gunn's technical info
  
• Windows annoyances
• tweakfiles.com
• sysinternals - System Internals - NT/9X freeware, source & techie info articles site map
  
• Matt's Windows Page
• NT Bug Traq
• NT Game Palace
• Unix vs NT
• W2K driver verifier
• ZD Net : Annual Windows Superguide
• See also OS,NOS
• Also on this page Main sources of infomation.

Security

• See Security links

Utilities, free

• GhostScript convert.ps (PostScript) files into other formats and view them using GhostView
  

Windows replacement shells

• geoshell
  
• Shell extension city
  

Windows sockets

• WinSock Software development tools
  
• Web page for "Windows Sockets Network Programming" book
  Books
• Windows Sockets: An Open Interface for Network Programming under Microsoft Windows, Version 1.1 [1995].
  
• Windows Sockets 2 Application Programming Interface, Revision 2.1.0 [1996].
  

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