Documentation and API Samples for drawing on Windows Aero Glass (DWM, GDI, GDI+) for all Win32 programmers

Question

I am looking for good resources for learning to use the Win32/GDI APIs or whatever supercedes it to draw and paint directly using the Win32 API to a glass form.

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Answer 1

I'm sure you've found the MSDN page about the DWM. It has jumps many topics and a few examples. Some of the "overview" articles there have examples (like the DWM Blur Behind Overview).

Unfortunately, other than the documentation, there are precious few good articles. You can start with Using glass on codeproject, and take a look at a detecting glass in delphi - after that using the functions straight from the docs is not too bad. Luckily they are all pretty straight-forward in practice.