Thread: Basic windows programming

I'm doing a lesson from a book call "Tricks of the Window Game Programming Gurus", where it trys to teach you how to make the basic parts of a window.
Sorry for cloggin the place up with comments but thats how I remember what the certain things do.
However, when linking the file i get 2 errors:

Code:

Linking...
LIBCD.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main
Debug/Demo.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

Demo.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)

heres my code

Code:

//DEMO2_3.C - A complete windows program

//INCLUDES/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

#include <windows.h>	//include all the windows headers
#include <windowsx.h>	//include useful macros
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

//DEFINES//////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//defines for windows
#define WINDOW_CLASS_NAME "WINCLASS1"

//FUNCTIONS////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//the event handler
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hwnd,
							UINT msg,
							WPARAM wparam,
							LPARAM lparam)

{
//this is the main message handler of the system
	PAINTSTRUCT	ps;	//used in WM_PAINT
	HDC		hdc;	//handle to a device context

//what is the message
switch(msg)
{
case WM_CREATE:
	{
	//do initialization stuff here

		//return success
	return(0);
	} break;

case WM_PAINT:
	{
	//simply validate the window
		hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);
		//you would do all your painting here
			EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);

			//return success
	return(0);
	} break;

case WM_DESTROY:
	{
	//kill the application, this sends a WM_QUIT message
		PostQuitMessage(0);

		//return success
	return(0);
	} break;

default:break;

} //ends switch

//process any messages that we didn't take car of
return (DefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, wparam, lparam));

} //ends WinProc

//WINMAIN//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hinstance,
				   HINSTANCE hprevinstance,
				   LPSTR lpcmdline,
				   int ncmdshow)
{

WNDCLASSEX winclass; //this will hold the class we make
HWND	hwnd;	//generic window handle
MSG		msg;	//generic message


// first fill in window class structure
winclass.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
winclass.style  = CS_DBLCLKS | CS_OWNDC | CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
winclass.lpfnWndProc = WindowProc;
winclass.cbClsExtra = 0;
winclass.cbWndExtra = 0;
winclass.hInstance  = hinstance;
winclass.hIcon      = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
winclass.hCursor    = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
winclass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(BLACK_BRUSH);
winclass.lpszMenuName  = NULL;
winclass.lpszClassName ="WINCLASS1";
winclass.hIconSm    = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);


//this registers our class with windows
if(!RegisterClassEx(&winclass))
   return(0);

//this creates the window, bails if there is a problem
if(!(hwnd = CreateWindowEx(NULL,	//extended style
		"WINCLASS1",          //this points to the class
		"Your Basic Window",    //the title of the window
		WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE,    //a few styles for the window
		0,0,		//initial x,y coordinates
		400,400,	//initial width and height 
		NULL,		//makes the handle to the parent, NULL makes desktop the parent
		NULL,		//handle to the menu
		hinstance,         //instance of this application
		NULL)))	         //extra creation parameters
return(0);




//enter main event loop
while(GetMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0))
{
	//translate any accelerator keys
	TranslateMessage(&msg);

	//send the message to the window proc
	DispatchMessage(&msg);
}//end while


//return to windows like this
return(msg.wParam);

}//end WinMain

Any suggestions? Oh yeah, I'm usin Visual C++.

I think, while creating project, you have choosen 'Win32 Console application'. And that is the reason, it is showing up the error.

Create Win32 Application..

Hopefully that will sovle this problem

aww man, you were right on the money.

TY roaring tiger