Windows Application in C

Question

Can anyone tell me how I can create a basic usable Windows application in C (I have a little idea about C++ also) ?

Answer 1

#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
    printf("Hello World!");
}

Will compile and run as a windows application. If you want to do something specific, then please let us know. There is nothing that makes Windows applications any different than any other applications.

Answer 2

Try this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/240525/how-did-you-learn-to-program

Answer 3

Get Petzold's Programming Windows book; it's a classic and covers Win32 development from its core C roots.

Answer 4

Perhaps the video at this link will help. If not there's TONS of other resources available on MSDN that will get you started.

Other than that "How to write a Windows Program" is just to broad and large a topic to really address here.

Answer 5

Raymond Chen's scratch program is a minimally functional white box, and a good base to work through some of the other articles that he publishes.

You can compile this in Visual Studio. In VS2005, I created a new empty C++ project and added comctl32.lib to Configuration->Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies.

Answer 6

The most minimal windows C program is this :-

#include <windows.h>
#include "resource.h"

int CALLBACK WinMain(HINSTANCE hApp, HINSTANCE, LPSTR pszCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
  return DialogBoxParam(hApp,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_DIALOG1),NULL,NULL,NULL);
}

It assumes you have used the resource editor to create a dialog resource called IDD_DIALOG1. The dialog will display, and close if the Close button is clicked.