Chapter 13 An Overview of the Windows Environment

Microsoft Windows has many features that the standard DOS environment does not. Because of this, Windows applications are in some ways more complex than standard DOS programs.

This chapter covers the following topics:

A comparison of Windows applications and standard DOS applications

Features that the Windows environment offers, and the impact these features have on the way you develop and write applications

The Windows programming model

The process you use to develop Windows applications

NOTE:

The sample source code found on the sample disks is more up-to-date than the sample code in Part 2 of this book.