Advanced Windows™ Programming

Written by a BYTE magazine columnist and Windows programming expert, this book/disk (3.5") package revolves around a single application to display device-independent bitmaps — to which are added more file formats, some image processing algorithms, and some performance tuning. Covers version 3.1.

1. Introduction
2. Some Fundamentals
3. Displaying and Printing DIBs
4. Exploiting the Clipboard
5. Exploiting DDE and OLE
6. Debugging Windows Programs
7. Custom Edit Controls
8. A Rich Text Edit Control
9. Tiling a Bitmap
10. Porting
11. A Concluding Unscientific Postscript

1. Exercises for the Student
2. Using Zortech C++
3. Using Borland C++
4. Using Watcom C
5. Using Quick C

This book made me begin to understand Windows, but it still is too much focus on fancy graphical applications (I never intended to work with "paint"-style programs, I wanted to do business forms and an interpreter).

It is verbose, but it doesn't give you what you need.