Allegro programming in a window

Does anyone know where I could find some good example code for using allegro with standard windows controls? I need to make a weapons editor for a game, but the allegro gui code is incredibley difficult to use. I want to be able to use allegro blitting functions on the HDC for a window, and be able to save allegro datafiles. I don't really know that much about windows programming, so I don't know how to get started. Example code or just advice would be helpful. Thanks!