Reading List for Developers of Windows-Based Applications

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows versions 3.1 and 3.0

SUMMARY

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

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Last update: 31 July 1992

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Advanced Windows Programming

Author:     Martin Heller

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

Authors:    Peter Norton and Paul Yao

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.

Author:    Brent Rector

ISBN:      0-672-30166-0
Price:     $39.95 (U.S.), $49.95 (Canada)

           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

Author:    Mike Klein

ISBN:      0-672-30236-5
Price:     $34.95 (U.S.), $43.95 (Canada)

           Program and Module Fundamentals, Memory Management,
           Library Design Ideas, Dialog and Custom Control Design.

High Performance C Graphics Programming for Windows

Author:    Lee Adams

ISBN:      0-8306-3790-7
Price:     $24.95

           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

Author:     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

Author:     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

Author:     Richard Wilton

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

Author:     Microsoft

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

Author:     Microsoft

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

Author:     Microsoft

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.

Programmer's Reference, Volume 3: Messages, Structures, and Macros

Author:     Microsoft

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

Author:     Microsoft

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

Author:     Microsoft

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

Author:     Ernest R. Tello

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

Authors:    Peter Norton and Paul Yao

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

Author:     Charles Petzold

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

Authors:    Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek

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++

Author:     Paul Dilascia

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

Author:     Jeffrey M. Richter

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

Author:     James W. McCord

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

Author:     Alan Southerton

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

Author:     Jeffrey D. Clark

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

Authors:    Peter Wilken and Dirk Honekamp

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

Author:     Daniel A. Norton

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.

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Microsoft Systems Journal

ISSN:       0889-9932
Address:    Circulation Department
            P.O. Box 1903
            Marion, OH  44305
            Phone: (800) 669-1002

Windows/MS-DOS Developer's Journal

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

ISSN:

Address:    P.O. Box 70167
            Eugene, OR  97401-0110
            Phone: (800) 234-0386
            Fax: (503) 746-0071