Originally Posted by
bithub
Most people do not interact with resource files that much because popular IDEs do all the work for you. In MSVC++, you can use a window designer to specify things like window sizes, locations, and static text. This gets saved into the resource file, and a resource.h header file is generated for you.
Resource files are not required, they just make life a little easier (sometimes). If you really want to understand everything that is going on with windows programming, I suggest that you don't use resource files.