Advice for C++ GUI programming

Question

I have been writing C++ Console/CMD-line applications for about a year now and would like to get into windows GUI apps. For those of you who have taken this road before, wh

Answer 1

For C++ you have two choices, Native or Managed.

For native development, my team (at Microsoft, in Windows) uses the Windows Template Library. It works very well for us.

You should learn the basics of Win32 and how Windowing works. The canonical tome is Programming Windows®

For Managed development you can use C++ with Windows Forms. However, windows forms has been supplanted by Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

• Here is a good site that can get you up to speed.
• This tutorial is useful
• You can use Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition for your tools (they are free).