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Can someone tell me the advantages to filling a WNDCLASS structure and calling CreateWindow instead of just using a Dialog Box?
Using a Dialog Box for the main GUI window is much easier since I can create it using a resource editor.
So could someone give me a reason why I would want to create a Window instead of a Dialog for the main window of the GUI?
A dialog is a particular case of a window that is tailored to manage child controls (that are themselves other type of windows).
A window created with its own winclass is a window that has to have its own semantics in using inputs and producing its own output.
Typically is a control that doesn’t exist yet.
That’s not a matter of advantages, simply is the way to do another not existing thing, not entirely based on the reuse of existing others.