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I try to develop few utility tools using Win32 in C++. try to get deeper understanding to few API calls.
any advice and tips to share?
diligent hands rule....
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I'm trying to make the link between your subject line and the actual message content.
If you're looking for API references, the online docs are probably still your best bet - at this point even the very last MSDN disc that got pressed is now horribly out of date. I've sent the few thousands I still had for recycling a few years ago.
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I kept the binder as a reminder of all the money I blew.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Nobody wanted the discs when the company I worked for was acquired by a bigger fish and our local office subsequently got shut down. That was back when MS made everything available on CD/DVD, including all available languages.
Like you, I've kept the various binder types they came up with over the years--they're still useful. I also kept a small subset of the more unique discs, like the final 16-bit Platform Archive they had created in the early 2000s, as well as the very first MSDN release (from 1995, I believe, which fit on something like 14 CDs). I may still have "the very last of everything" somewhere. But I had tons of duplicates. No point in hanging onto those.
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dandy72 wrote: I've sent the few thousands I still had for recycling
To AOL?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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To what end--encourage them for their practices...? 
AOL should be sending USB sticks these days. I'd take them...
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this MSDN library is most recent one: targeting .NET framework 4.5.1. I want to install one copy in case I have no internet access so that I still can do some research.
diligent hands rule....
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Southmountain wrote: any advice and tips to share?
Don't do it. Stick to C#. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Any book by Jeffrey Richter should cover some of the advanced win32 stuff you can do.
Most of the rest can be figured out through the MSDN docs
Real programmers use butterflies
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I will check out this book. thanks.
diligent hands rule....
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thank you for the two books recommendation. I order them today!
diligent hands rule....
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Sit down, and describe what your goals as a programmer are. Describe what you already know, and what types of programming you have done. What OS's, languages, types of apps.
Share those here, and you may get some good ideas.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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thanks for your suggestion! I will gradually post some thoughts and my attempts in codeproject.com as time goes on and share my challenges here,
diligent hands rule....
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I think focusing on a specific language, and a specific platform, like .NET WinForm, or WPF, is a good idea in most cases.
Again, your background and goals come into play.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I focus on .NET WinForm, but plan to use Win32 utility to do some monitoring and management service on my software.
diligent hands rule....
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Happy to hear my StarDew Valley money is safe
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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What? You thought they were being nice, helpful guys?
No-one who punctuates text that badly, and who doesn't know the differences between "and" and "or", can be trusted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The price is good, but only if the processor is authentic. I would be more comfortable with it if it would not claim to be original RCA. I think they only produced the CDP1802AC, the ACE came later, when RCA was no more from Harris or Intersil.
The one I have here if from Harris an is a CDP1802BCE. They had traded in the option to run it at 6.4 MHz (at 10V) for 5 MHz at the more practical 5V. I had it running at 6.5 MHz on the breadboard yesterday and it did not even get noticably warm.
Anyway, if the processor is ok, that's already a good deal. The rest? Yes, you could use the EPROM and the RAM, but better ones are not really more expensive. The question is, how 'retro' you want it to be. These parts are inbetween. And you would need some 74HCXX logic. They also are not retro. 74LSXX will not cut it. They are pin compatible and may even work, but it's never a good idea to mix different logic families.
For me the that question is easy. I already have retro sitting on the other desk. Even still working, if you overlook some parts showing their age. I will not hesitate to use whatever is reasonable and available for the Zwölf, including bigger and faster memory or using PIC microcontrollers. The circuit board is going to cost more than the parts that will go on it anyway.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It's a surplus house and I'm sure that it's not a reliable source. I've got a few things from them and I'm not real impressed, other than an experimenters keypad they had at one time. The price was good and I've used them in several projects.
Just kind of a coincidence that we've been talking retro lately; you ZWolf and me Z80. Last week got an email for Z80 parts.
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Ugh! Z80. The old enemy, we meet again!
Remember the days when nerd wars were not about companies or operating systems and about processors instead? CDP1802 against Z80 was actually the battle of RISC against CISC, but nobody knew that yet. RISC was officially not invented yet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I’ve used All Electronics[^] before, and have had good experiences with them. Also a surplus store.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I did some research a while back on Electronics suppliers for a project I'm working on and ran across All Electronics, I've not dealt with them but they seem to have a better selection than BGMicro.
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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