Programming Windows 95 [With CDROM]

by Charles Petzold

Book Overview

This is the best-known, most widely praised, and most widely used how-to programming book on the planet. It is the one book that no aspiring or experienced developer can afford to be without. Updated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556156766
• ISBN13: 9781556156762
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 1100 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Still the best intro on the market

Even though this edition has been 'out there' for about 3 1/2 years, it's still the best intro to Windows C programming on the market. Why? Simple. Petzold is a gifted writer/teacher that knows the Windows API like the back of his hand. He writes VERY clearly (without ambiguity) and, unlike most authors on the subject, never uses terminology or skills that he hasn't already covered. Petzold almost anticipates your questions and confusions and addresses them succinctly. Any programmer familiar with C can learn Windows programming from this book alone. I have many books on Windows programming but I'd trade them all for this one.

Buy this book! Read it! It rocks!

This book is very informative and tells you all about how to program windows 95. For a generation of c-programmers, "look it up in Petzold" has been the final word on questions about programming windows. IN this thorough revision, Petzold reveals many valuable new insights, augmented by key contributions by programming expert Paul Yao (of the Paul Yao company, Seattle). Have a nice day!

It's Great, Powerfull and Perfect

This book, shows an easy to use way of programming windows 95. It has allot of stuff on menus, scrollbars, drawing with GDI primitives, writing to the registry, creating DLL's, printing, ole, linking etc.. I read a couple of pages and know that it is GREAT. Although it left out some important stuff like most of the controls that windows uses it's a preety good starter for those who are entering windows programing. I also read Direct X for dummies by Andre Lamothe and found that book to be a Perfect Preparer for this book.

The Best. The Greatest. Forget the MFC stuff.

I purchased, read, and used Petzold's book "Programming Windows 3.1" and it was great. This book is just as great. It is the definitive book on learning to program in Windows. One observation though. Some of the omissions (NO mention of Borland, even though this book went to print before Borland's demise) makes me think the con artists at Microsoft twisted Mr. Petzold's arm a little on this one. That notwithstanding, this really is a worthwhile book for anyone trying to learn to program Windows95 (or NT).

Required reading

If you want to program in Windows 95 (or 98), start with this book. Everything you need to know to write applications in C or C++ is in here. The book is well written, the examples are clear and useful, and the sticky points of certain features are repeated wherever the features are used (so if you use the book like a reference you won't get hosed by a tricky point first raised in an earlier chapter).Most of the book deals with drawing on the screen and presenting the user interface, but it also covers memory management, multithreading, file I/O, printing, and other useful topics.