A suggestion of book is needed

[V07]

Hi everyone,
I am a beginner in windows programming.Until now I have referred several documentations from various websites but I feel that it is quiet difficult for me since I can't find it continuous.As per my doctors advice I am not allowed to use the e-books.

So I need a suggestion for purchasing a book either hard or soft copy.

Please don't answer me to refer Google because I am complete idiot in windows programming so I don't know which book to use.Kindly suggest me.

My interest is developing apps for windows.

Again saying I am complete idiot in windows programming so please suggest me a book so that I can learn it from scratch.

By the way I have a strong basement in general C++ programming.

Thank you.

Happy New Year

cheers,
Visweswaran N

[E0p9LyTq]

Programming Windows®, Fifth Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Windows®-Fifth-Developer-Reference/dp/157231995X/

It's an old book (1998), but will teach you Windows programming.

You have to know C/C++ programming to a decent degree.

If you want a more modern approach to Windows programming there is Programming Windows: Writing Windows 8 Apps With C# and XAML (works for Windows 10).
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Windows-Writing-Developer-Reference/dp/0735671761/

No matter what book or books you buy/use to learn Windows programming you should get Visual Studio 2015 Community. It is free.

[Thomas1965]

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Windows-Programming-Days/dp/0672305313/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

http://www.amazon.com/Schildts-Windows-Programming-Herbert-Schildt/dp/0078820812/ref=la_B001H6PSMG_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451813355&sr=1-14&refinements=p_82%3AB001H6PSMG

They are also quite old, but still useful. It seems Programming Windows in plain C++ is out of fashion since there are no newer editions available.

[V07]

Thank you everyone for helping me.

[evaboy]

This book is extremely good. No ebook, just hard copy
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Addison-Wesley-Advanced-Windows-Series/dp/0201634929

[freddie1]

They are also quite old, but still useful. It seems Programming Windows in plain C++ is out of fashion since there are no newer editions available.

C++ is the hard way to do it. Of course, there are benefits, but most folks want the quick and dirty way to do things.

I think most or all of those books above are plain SDK, Api stuff, which is what I do. But the technique has staying power. Everything else are wrappers around the underlying C and COM based Api.

Today I pulled out an old COM book - "Inside OLE" by Kraig Brockschmidt of Microsoft, copywrite 1995. He wrote one of the formitive books on COM when Microsoft was just rolling out that technology, which underpins a lot of Windows and .NET. I have the disk that came with the book and all the executables were created with like VC++ 2 or something like that. The dates on the files are all May, 1995, before even Windows 95 came out. They were likely compiled on Windows NT 3 or something like that. They run perfectly on Windows 7 x64, and I'm sure they'll run on Windows 10 and thereafter. That's basically what I look for in a development framework - staying power.

There are a lot of tutorials on the web concerning Windows Programming - I've even written some myself. One folks used to recommend a lot here was the Forger's Win32 Tutorial...

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

I especially liked the MDI demo in there. Some stuff I've written is here...

http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=3389.0