On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:09:52PM +0200, Tels wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Moin, > > I want to learn more about the directx and general windows APIs. Now > I looked at some books, but was very unsure as to buy what and where, if > ever. > > First, it seems that good books about these topics come from Microsoft > Press. Naturally I don't want to support them ;) > Second, it seems that you need for the examples and SDK Visual C++ - again > from MS. Eeek! > And of course, you have to run and use it under Windows *sigh* > I am also worried about the different EULAs, licence and all that other > stuff "tainting" me - even though I do believe that all of this stuff isn't > legal binding for me anyway. But you never know. > > So, my question: Where can I obtain *free* information about the API's, > their working etc. What do you use? Books you can advise? search.microsoft.com.
That's where I get quite some information from. Apart from that, mostly web searches and my pretty good collection of books (it's starting to extend to 1 meter of expert windows books now :-) -- Andreas Mohr Stauferstr. 6, D-71272 Renningen, Germany Tel. +49 7159 800604 http://home.arcor.de/andi.mohr/