Programming Windows 3.1

by Charles Petzold

This definitive guide has now been updated to cover the significant enchancements of Windows 3.1, including the new Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol, the printing and TrueType font application programming interface (API), and more. Packed with straightforward explanations, keen insights, tried and tested programming techniques, and scores of sample programs written in C.

983 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

Charles Petzold has been writing about programming for Windows-based operating systems for 24 years. A Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development and a Windows Pioneer Award winner, Petzold is author of the classic Programming Windows, currently in its sixth edition and one of the best-known programming books of all time; the widely acclaimed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software; and more than a dozen other books.

Reviews

[Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Programming Windows 3.1 is a very rich resource, informatively speaking.

If the reader is anticipating to roll-up their sleeves and begin instantly programming Windows 3.1 with no previous insight, this is not the to-go book.

Programming in general takes a lot of practice, repetition, to develop a concrete muscle-memory in what it is you are doing.

[Sam Wong · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I found this book in the computing labs, the first ten chapters were missing. At the back cover, it also promised more than 1.2MB of source code in a floppy disk, that was missing as well. Not the end of the world as I don't have the technology to read it yet, the Apple USB floppy drive is yet to be released.

It's a great read for those twenty somethings who wants to travel back in time, right into their childhood.

4 stars because it doesn't say how to outrun the Abominable Snow Monster, which IMHO is the biggest problem in the Windows 3.1

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

The original book for Windows programming. How I miss those window handles - not.