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Analyzer (58)
If you know the basic grammar of C++ fairly well, taken in consideration that your still new. Is it easy to learn Visual C++. Im asking this because I was just looking at a Visual C++ tutorial online.. and i found it not that difficult to understand but the format and grammar seem a different but not outside of C++.
Irish Enigma (4)
MS Visual C++ or the language C++?
Disch (13742)
Visual C++ is an IDE. It has nothing to do with the language. C++ is C++ no matter what IDE you use.

However there is a separate language called C++/CLI that is very different from C++. C++/CLI is sort of like an MS spinoff of C++.

If you see things like:

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System.Time.Whatever

// or

String^ foo;


Then that's C++/CLI and not C++.
Thumper (918)
*shivers* Oh the hours spent trying to convert String^ to char arrays. Never, never again, will i try that.
Analyzer (58)
I ment Windows programming...

the code likes like this:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <tchar.h>


static TCHAR szWindowClass[] = _T("win32app");

static TCHAR szTitle[] = _T("Win32 Guided Tour Application");

HINSTANCE hInst;

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                   HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                   LPSTR lpCmdLine,
                   int nCmdShow)
{
    WNDCLASSEX wcex;

    wcex.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
    wcex.style          = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
    wcex.lpfnWndProc    = WndProc;
    wcex.cbClsExtra     = 0;
    wcex.cbWndExtra     = 0;
    wcex.hInstance      = hInstance;
    wcex.hIcon          = LoadIcon(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_APPLICATION));
    wcex.hCursor        = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wcex.hbrBackground  = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
    wcex.lpszMenuName   = NULL;
    wcex.lpszClassName  = szWindowClass;
    wcex.hIconSm        = LoadIcon(wcex.hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_APPLICATION));

    if (!RegisterClassEx(&wcex))
    {
        MessageBox(NULL,
            _T("Call to RegisterClassEx failed!"),
            _T("Win32 Guided Tour"),
            NULL);

        return 1;
    }

    hInst = hInstance; 
    HWND hWnd = CreateWindow(
        szWindowClass,
        szTitle,
        WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
        CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
        500, 100,
        NULL,
        NULL,
        hInstance,
        NULL
    );

    if (!hWnd)
    {
        MessageBox(NULL,
            _T("Call to CreateWindow failed!"),
            _T("Win32 Guided Tour"),
            NULL);

        return 1;
    }

       ShowWindow(hWnd,
        nCmdShow);
    UpdateWindow(hWnd);

    MSG msg;
    while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
    }

    return (int) msg.wParam;
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    PAINTSTRUCT ps;
    HDC hdc;
    TCHAR greeting[] = _T("Puerto Rican Independence");

    switch (message)
    {
    case WM_PAINT:
        hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps);

          TextOut(hdc,
            5, 5,
            greeting, _tcslen(greeting));
       
        EndPaint(hWnd, &ps);
        break;
    case WM_DESTROY:
        PostQuitMessage(0);
        break;
    default:
        return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
        break;
    }

    return 0;
}


I understand most of it, but it looks kind of goofy.. it doesn't like like every day C++, or atleast the C++ I learned from old school tutorials..

I understand this is windows programming.. My question was for somebody who knows the C++ grammar fairly well.. is it easy to get used to windows C++ programming??
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