Thread: #include <windows.h> and #include <wininet.h>

As I am writing a programming in C++ I thought I could do away with the .h extensions?

No you cannot
C++ comes with set of headers that name has no extention, they should be included as

Code:

#include <vector>

other headers have extention - so you should use the corect name like

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include "my_very_special_header.hpp"

etc

Yes, what vart says is correct. The reason for that is that some header files in C++ have exactly the same name as the ones in C, e.g. string - so to differentiate the C header file string.h from the STL string class file, the latter has no .h on the end.

Including <string.h> gives you a quite different set of stuff than <string>, and in some cases you may even want both at the same time.

So all STL headers have no .h [older ones, say in Turbo C do have for example iostream.h, but those are not in the C++ standard set].

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Mats

Download the Windows SDK. You will get your heads & all other necessary files.
As for networking, may I suggest taking a look at Boost Asio? Perhaps it might just contain some of what you need.