I recently obtained a copy of Petzolds "Programming Windows 5th edition" (wooohooo finally). He is teaching assuming VC++6.0 and Win98. I am running .NET on a XP machine. Since I don't know that much (yet) about Windows Programming I wanted to make sure that no unforseen problems will crop up due to using .NET over VC++6.0 and runnign XP over Win98. If anyone reading this thread has read the book above please respond and ease my mind
I have his book, I use Dev-C++ and the only problem I've run into is with the resource files. Since I don't know anything about .NET I can't say for sure if you'll have a problem or not but I'd imagine you'd be ok. And I run XP.
A simple .NET app will add a lot of extra code that the book doesn't show. I was using .NET but I found it easier to just use Visual C++ 6 because I could just make empty applications without all the extra .NET stuff. I was running XP too and all the programs worked fine. I am sure you use the .NET compilerfor that book but I was just to lazy to figure out how to make an empty application.
I have gone through the majorty of the book using VC++ 6.0 and WinXP. I cannot comment on the .NET situation (you can't start an empty application in .NET? Are you serious?), but I can comment on WinXP. I have noticed only a few things that WinXP has some minor problems with, all of them are documented here. Most of the code works fine.
Thanks for the info guys. Very helpful as usual :)
There may be a way but like I said, I was too lazy to find it. I was also trying to load an application I was already working on using visual C++ and got a bunch of error so I went back to using visual C++ to finish the project.Quote:
(you can't start an empty application in .NET? Are you serious?),
To create an empty Windows project in .NET: File->New->Project. In the New Project dialog, chosse Visual C++ Projects->Win32 Project, give it a name and hit enter. In the next dialog click Application Settings and under Additional Options, choose Empty Project.
Ahh thats where they hid it. Thanks that will help me lots too.