Old school programmer needs to learn new tricks

[jerehart]

Hey,

I'm an embedded systems programmer that has been waylaid into doing some Win32 work. I am having a tough time trying to figure out the windows GUI. A lot of things aren't making sense. I haven't been able to how to work on a windows program. Some things look familiar but other things are throwing me into a loop. Currently I am reading source code and it is frustrating me. Any book recommendations, sites? I am trying to learn how to use Visual Studio .NET but it is a far cry from my comfortable Vi & make environment. Any tips or common mistakes I should look out for while using it?

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Anyone cofortable with Vi should not be touching a GUI designer

Not much for general help, check the FAQs, flip through some posts. If/when you run into specific questions, we can be of more assistance.

-Rick

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[SBendBuckeye]

Check out the Walkthroughs in MSDN, also check google for tutorials. I think vbCity.com has some. Good Luck!

Have a great day!

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[Dimandja]

You need to start small, and learn by practicing. If you are trying to duplicate what you were doing before, you're in for a long haul; VI and Windows GUI are not the same thing.

If you have a specific question, we can help.

 

[Dimandja]

You could start by finding out where your interests lie. You can't simply try to master everything. From your question, I think you don't know what you want to do with Windows GUI, or anything else on Windows. Develop a specific interest first.

 

[jerehart]

Hey,

Well unfortunately I don't have much interest, I just need to complete a task that I was assigned. I have to create a telemetry window and I have a design in the works. The hard part is I know how to do it in Tcl, Perl and on a straight C/VxWorks platform.

I have been trying to find info on Wincommon and a class called Cdbg (I don't have it in front of me now, sorry for the errors.) I can't find info on these classes and how to use them properly. I figure on the environment I can import to the project, since I am creating an add on, but my usual approach (read the Interface Control Document, read the code) is just not making any headway. Is there a reference manual that I can use (pdf) that can tell me what these classes are?