Book review by Ted Felix
This book walks you step-by-step through the process of developing your own object-oriented C++ wrapper around the Windows API. It's ironic to think that this book is more relevant now than when it was written. With Microsoft dropping support for MFC in favor of .Net, and the fact that MFC just doesn't cut it in production applications, writing your own application framework seems like a pretty good idea. If you know MFC inside and out, you won't learn anything here. If you are interested in creating your own C++ wrapper for an API, you might learn a few new tricks. Now that you can get it used, this book is a bargain. Paul's website for Windows++ has the source code for download.
It's pretty easy to pick up for cheap on Amazon:
Windows ++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++ (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series)
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