Q81705: Reading List for Developers of Windows-Based Applications
Article: Q81705
Product(s): Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.0,3.1
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Last Modified: 05-NOV-1999
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) versions 3.0, 3.1
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SUMMARY
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The listing below is intended to demonstrate the variety of books and
periodicals on the market today that discuss programming for the Microsoft
Windows operating system. The publications are listed in alphabetical order by
title. None of these publications is recommended over any other, nor over any
that are absent from the list. Each of the publications has its own strengths
and weaknesses. Before making any purchase, examine the publication to see if it
meets your needs. All prices listed were copied from the cover.
You may distribute this list freely, provided that you do not make any changes to
it.
Please send any additions, updates, or corrections to the author at one of the
following email addresses:
Matt Leber
Internet:mattle@microsoft.com
Some of the products included here are manufactured by vendors independent of
Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products'
performance or reliability.
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Last update: 31 July 1992
BOOKS
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Advanced Windows Programming
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Author: Martin Heller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN: 0-471-54711-5
Price: $32.95 (U.S.)
Contents: Displaying and Printing DIBs, Exploiting the Clipboard,
Exploiting DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) and OLE (Object
Linking and Embedding), Debugging, Custom Edit Controls, A
Rich Text Edit Control, Tiling a Bitmap, Porting.
Borland C++ Programming for Windows
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Authors: Peter Norton and Paul Yao
Publisher: Bantam Computer Books
ISBN: 0-553-35143-5
Price: $29.95 (U.S.)
Subjects: Borland Application Framework for Windows (OWL -- Object
Windows Library). Assumes knowledge of C++ and teaches the
organization of the OWL libraries and making OWL work with
Windows.
Developing Windows 3.1 Applications with Microsoft C/C++ - Second Ed.
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Author: Brent Rector
Publisher: SAMS
ISBN: 0-672-30166-0
Price: $39.95 (U.S.), $49.95 (Canada)
Subjects: Text Output, Graphical Output, Keyboard Input, Mouse Input,
Timer Input, controls, Dialog Boxed, Menus and
Accelerators, Icons, String Resources, Printing, Memory
Management, Fonts, Dynamic-Link Libraries (DLLs), Custom
Controls, Multiple Document Interface (MDI), Dynamic Data
Exchange (DDE), Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
(DDEML).
DLLs and Memory Management
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Author: Mike Klein
Publisher: SAMS
ISBN: 0-672-30236-5
Price: $34.95 (U.S.), $43.95 (Canada)
Subjects: Windows Fundamentals, Processor and Memory Fundamentals
Program and Module Fundamentals, Memory Management,
Library Design Ideas, Dialog and Custom Control Design.
High Performance C Graphics Programming for Windows
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Author: Lee Adams
Publisher: Windcrest/McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-8306-3790-7
Price: $24.95
Subjects: Windows Programming, Graphics, Mouse, Color, Fonts,
Clipboard and Metafiles, Printer Programming,
Principals of 3D Programming, Interactive 3D Programming,
Animation, Principles of Image Processing, Practical
Image Processing Techniques.
Microsoft C/C++ Class Libraries User's Guide
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft
ISBN: N/A
Price: Included with version 7.0 of the Microsoft C/C++
Optimizing Compiler.
Subjects: The Microsoft Foundation Class Library Tutorial, The
Microsoft Foundation Class Library Cookbook (General-
Purpose Classes, The CObject Class, Collections, Files and
Serialization, Diagnostics, Exceptions, Application
Design, Window Management, Dialogs and Control Windows,
Graphics, User Input), Microsoft iostream Class Library
Tutorial.
Microsoft C/C++ Class Libraries Reference
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft
ISBN: N/A
Price: Included with version 7.0 of the Microsoft C/C++
Optimizing Compiler.
Subjects: Introduction to the Microsoft Foundation Class Library
(Windows Development with the Microsoft Foundation
Classes, General-Purpose Foundation Classes, Macros and
Global Functions, Diagnostic Services, Exception
Processing, Message Map Cross-Reference, Structures and
Enumerated Values for Windows), The Microsoft Foundation
Class Library Reference, The Microsoft iostream Class
Library Reference.
Microsoft Windows 3 Developer's Workshop
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Author: Richard Wilton
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-244-2
Price: $24.95 (U.S.)
Subjects: Windows Design, Debugging, Dynamic-Link Libraries (DLLs),
Custom Controls, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), Subclassing.
Microsoft Windows 3.1 Guide to Programming
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-452-6
Price: Included with the Microsoft Windows Software Development
Kit or available separately for $29.95 (U.S.).
Subjects: A helpful introduction to the Windows API in version 3.1
for the experienced C programmer. Detailed instruction and
examples. Topics include processing input and output,
creating the necessary components of a Windows-based
application, managing memory, using dynamic-link libraries
(DLLs) and dynamic data exchange (DDE), and working with
fonts and printers.
Microsoft Windows 3.1 Programmer's Reference, Volume 1: Overview
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-453-4
Price: Included with the Microsoft Windows Software Development
Kit or available separately for $29.95 (U.S.).
Subjects: An examination of all the Windows management, graphics,
and system services as well as the extension libraries
that are a part of the API. In addition, there is
instruction on modifying specific Microsoft Windows 3.1-
based applications: Control Panel, File Manager, and
others.
Microsoft Windows 3.1 Programmer's Reference, Volume 2: Functions
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-463-1
Price: Included with the Microsoft Windows Software Development
Kit or available separately for $39.95 (U.S.).
Subjects: A detailed reference to the API functions. Includes
information on various function groups as well as an
alphabetic reference to each function. Data includes
syntax, statement of purpose, input parameters, return
values, and comments.
Microsoft Windows 3.1
Programmer's Reference, Volume 3: Messages, Structures, and Macros
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-464-X
Price: Included with the Microsoft Windows Software Development
Kit or available separately for $29.95 (U.S.).
Subjects: Comprehensive review of additional elements of the API:
data types; structures; macros, printer escape codes; DDE
transactions; and File Manager, Control Panel, common
dialog boxes, and installable driver messages.
Microsoft Windows 3.1 Programmer's Reference, Volume 4: Resources
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-494-1
Price: Included with the Microsoft Windows Software Development
Kit or available separately for $22.95 (U.S.).
Subjects: Descriptions of the many Microsoft Windows file formats in
version 3.1 as well as reference pages for several built-
in tools. Reference-page topics include resource-
definition statements, assembly language macros, and
Windows Help statements and macros.
Microsoft Windows 3.1 Programming Tools
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Author: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-454-2
Price: Included with the Microsoft Windows Software Development
Kit or available separately for $22.95 (U.S.).
Subjects: Detailed information and instruction for using built-in
software development tools that are part of the Microsoft
Windows SDK. Topics include creating and compiling
resources, debugging applications, analyzing data, and
compressing and decompressing data.
Object Oriented Programming for Windows
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Author: Ernest R. Tello
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0-471-52754-8
Price: $29.95
Subjects: Introduction to Windows, Object Oriented Programming -
What is it?, Object-Oriented Languages and Development
Tools, Windows 3.0 Software Development, Introduction
to the Actor Programming System, Object-Oriented User
Interfaces for Windows, Object-Oriented Graphics
Programming for Windows, Programming with Object
Graphics.
Peter Norton's Windows 3.1 Power Programming Techniques, 2nd Edition
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Authors: Peter Norton and Paul Yao
Publisher: Bantam Computer Books
ISBN: 0-553-37062-6
Price: $34.95 (U.S), $43.95 (Canada), L31.99 (Great Britain)
Subjects: Text Output, Messaging, Graphical Output, Keyboard Input,
Mouse Input, Controls, Dialog Boxes, Menus and
Accelerators, Icons, String Resources, Printing, Memory
Management, Far Heap Management, Dynamic-Link Libraries
(DLLs).
Programming Windows 3.0
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Author: Charles Petzold
Publisher: Microsoft Press
ISBN: 1-55615-264-7
Price: $29.95 (U.S.)
Subjects: Text Output, Graphical Output, Keyboard Input, Mouse
Input, Timer Input, Controls, Dialog Boxes, Menus and
Accelerators, Icons, Bitmaps, String Resources, Printing,
Window Subclassing, Memory Management, Fonts, Dynamic-Link
Libraries (DLLs), Multiple Document Interface (MDI),
Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).
Undocumented Windows
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Authors: Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-60834-0
Price: $39.95
Subjects: General Use of Undocumented Windows APIs, Examining
Windows Executables, Disassembling Windows, Tools for
Exploring Windows, KERNEL: Windows System Services,
USER: Microsoft Windows User Interface, Undocumented
Windows Messages, GDI, SYSTEM, ToolHelp: A Partial
Replacement for Undocumented Windows.
Windows++
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Author: Paul Dilascia
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-60891-X
Price: $29.95 (U.S.), $38.95 (Canada)
Subtitle: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++
Windows 3: A Developer's Guide
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Author: Jeffrey M. Richter
Publisher: M&T Books
ISBN: 1-55851-164-4
Price: $39.95 (U.S.)
Subjects: Anatomy of a Window, Subclassing and Superclassing,
Controls, Dialog Boxes, Printing, Custom Controls,
Multiple Document Interface (MDI), Dynamic Data Exchange
(DDE) with Program Manager, Tasks, Message Queues, Message
Hooks.
Windows 3.1 Programmer's Reference
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Author: James W. McCord
Publisher: Que
ISBN: 0-88022-787-7
Price: $39.95 (U.S.)
Contents: A complete reference to all SDK functions, Windows
Programming Basics, GDI, Resources, The Keyboard and
Windows, The Mouse and Windows, Windows and Child Windows,
Memory Management and Windows, MDI, and DLLs.
Windows 3.0 Programming Primer
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Author: Alan Southerton
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-55078-4
Price: $34.95 (U.S.)
Subjects: Windows, Menus, Dialog Boxes, GDI Graphics, GDI Text,
General GDI.
Windows Programmer's Guide to OLE/DDE
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Author: Jeffrey D. Clark
Publisher: SAMS
ISBN: 0-672-30226-8
Price: $34.95
Subject: Dynamic Data Exchange Concepts, DDEML Conversation
Management, DDEML Transaction Management, DDEML Monitor
Applications, Object Linking and Embedding Concepts, OLE
Server Applications, OLE Client Applications, Ojbect
Handlers.
Windows System Programming
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Authors: Peter Wilken and Dirk Honekamp
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 1-55755-116-2
Price: $39.95 (U.S.)
Subjects: Windows-Based Application Basics, Text Output, Dialog Boxes,
Displaying Graphics, Colors and Bitmaps, Multiple Document
Interface (MDI), Clipboard, Timer, Dynamic Data Exchange
(DDE), Hooks, Printing, The Serial Interface, Dynamic-Link
Libraries (DLLs), Windows Memory Management.
Writing Windows Device Drivers
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Author: Daniel A. Norton
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-57795-X
Price: $29.92 (U.S.), $38.95 (Canada)
Subjects: Windows Operating Modes, GDI-The Graphics Display
Interface, Printer and Plotter Drivers, Display Drivers,
System Drivers, Virtual Device Drivers, Virtual Driver
Services, System Virtual Drivers, Nonstandard Device
Drivers, Driver Installation.
PERIODICALS
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Microsoft Systems Journal
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ISSN: 0889-9932
Address: Circulation Department
P.O. Box 1903
Marion, OH 44305
Phone: (800) 669-1002
Windows/MS-DOS Developer's Journal
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ISSN:
Address: 1601 West 23rd Street, Suite 200
P.O. Box 3127
Lawrence, KS 66046-0127
Phone: (913) 841-1631
Fax: (913) 841-2624
Windows Tech Journal
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Address: P.O. Box 70167
Eugene, OR 97401-0110
Phone: (800) 234-0386
Fax: (503) 746-0071
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