This book shows you how to write programs that run under MicrosOFt Windows 98, MicrosOFt Windows NT 4.0, and Windows NT 5.0. These programs are written in the C programming language and use the native Windows application programming interfaces (APIs). As I ll discuss later in this chapter, this is not the only way to write programs that run under Windows. However, it is important to understand the Windows APIs regardless of what you eventually use to write your code.
The release of the MicrosOFt Visual Studio .NET (and Visual C++ .NET in particular) has underscored MicrosOFt’s increasing focus on Internet technologies, which are at the heart of the MicrosOFt .NET architecture. In addition to supporting the .NET initiative, Visual C++ .
