No MFC, No VB - pure Win32 C/C++ !!!

Presented here are a collection of programming tutorials for Windows. The tutorials cover various Windows programming topics, but most concentrate on the user-interface aspect of programming. All tutorials and source downloads are in the C programming language. No external libraries such as MFC are required to build the source code presented in these tutorials.

Tips and Tricks

Neatpad - Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor

Tutorial series covering the design and implementation of Neatpad - a text editor written using pure C/C++ Win32 techniques. The entire range of functionality is covered - text file loading, undo and redo, unicode, user-interface details and memory management techniques.

OLE Drag and Drop

Tutorial series detailing OLE drag and drop, using pure Win32 C++.

Using Cards.dll

Three tutorials describing different ways to access the standard Windows cards.dll bitmaps.

Docking and Splitter Windows

Three tutorials describing different ways implement docking and splitter windows.

Windows User Interface Tutorials

A collections of tutorials covering many different aspects of Windows user-interface programming.

Windows System Tutorials

Tutorials covering Windows System programming.

Windows NT Kernel-mode Programming

Tutorials covering Windows system and kernel-mode programming.