Re: [ros-dev] Why so small?

[Anders Bergh]

I could be wrong of course, but isn't MFC available in VC++ 2005
Express, which is free?

On 4/2/07, Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>   On Monday 02 April 2007 06:40, Jason Ward wrote:
> >   Ok I want to start developing for reactos. I will
> > use NASM. Not C/C++.
> >
> >  So how do I start? do you send me a list of things you want done and then I
> >  do them?
> >  It would take me too long to go through all the source code so I figured
> >  that I could just write
> >  whatever you ask me to.
> >
> >  I am a Com Sci undergraduate. I can program in RosAsm so I shouldn't have
> >  too much trouble converting to NASM. I can read C++. I can program in
> >  python, some basic, pascal. And I am learning Java in University.
> >
> >  I have next to no knowledge of the win32api. I know quite a bit of OpenGL
> >  though. 
>  First things first, get yourself a copy of theForger's Tutorial:
>  http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
>  Then a copy of Petzold's "Programming Windows".  It will give you a start
> in
>  understanding the Win32 API, which is nothing like the POSIX API.
>
>  Ignore books like "Windows 2000 Developer's Guide" and so - they tend to
> be
>  MFC-heavy and Win32 API-light.  MFC's only useful if you're intending to do
>  serious Windows applications development, and so, it's useless for an MS
>  Windows-class operating system project like ReactOS.  And besides, MFC's only
>  available for people who pay the big bucks for Visual Studio - it's
>  Microsoft's proprietary extensions built on top of the Win32 API.
>
>  To get your head around the ReactOS kernel, you should take a look at Gary
>  Nebbett's "Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference".  Russinovich and
>  Solomon's "Windows Internals" is a good start to get your head around the
> MS
>  WinNT structure/architecture - it used to be "Inside Windows [NT|2000|etc]".
>
>  Hope this helps.
>
>  Wesley Parish
> >   No Directx knowledge. 
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