Re: Win32 API Declares in C++

From:

"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:22:11 -0500

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cleohm wrote:

Thanks for your reply. But thats not what I want. What I need is the actual
syntax for making a declaration and what is provided in the MSDN library is
how to use it. Like the example I have shown they typically declare with an
alias. In another words it is just like creating a function and declaring it
and what I want is not the code on how to use the function but how to declare
it, which in this case is a standard win32 api declaration. Any idea how I
can get these resources?

You are asking for the wrong thing. The methods you are used to from VB
simply do not apply in C++. You said you want the declarations for C++.
In C and C++ the programmer never types the API declarations! They
are provided for you by Microsoft in the form of header files that you
#include in your program. Don't even think of typing them in yourself!

Go here and download the Vista SDK (it works for older Windows too), or
install MSDN from a CD if you have it.

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productid=&freetext=sdk&displaylang=en>

Once this is installed, here is how you declare the most common few
thousand API functions:

#include <windows.h>

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Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]