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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:24:12+00:00

I know quite a bit of C++ programming, I know how to use classes,

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I know quite a bit of C++ programming, I know how to use classes, pointers, arrays loops etc. I mainly develop games with C++ which does not require you to know too much visual programming unless you want to make some editor, but now I want to start learning Visual programming with C++ so I wanted to start with visual studio 2010, the problem is that every time I look MS documentation is kind of hard for me to follow it. So my question is, what’s a good resource; book or videos, to start learning Visual C++? I don’t want something about console programming, what I want is about visual programming with Visual C++. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s a very broad question so I’ll try to be as unspecific as possible.
    For C++ you have a few choices for interface libraries, you’ll have to do some research and decide which one you like most:

    • plain Windows API, fun to poke around but masochistic to say the least
    • MFC – mostly an OOP wrapper around the Windows API
    • WTL is what I would call MFC Lite, another OOP wrapper but very lightweight (alas unsupported by MS)
    • Qt is nice if you want to go platform independent but I personally find it very…bloated. Unlike the first few it’s not really built around the Windows specifics but a more general approach, very much thought through.

    If you decide to stay in the Windows world, I really recommend Programming Windows by Charles Petzold. It saved me countless times.

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