[Dev-C++] 2 Questions

[Will <sel...@ya...>]

Greets Folks,

I am new to the list, but I have been lurking for some
time, and it seems you've got a nice bunch of folks
here.  I've got about one year's programming
experience in C, but I am totally new to Windows, so
please bear with some of my questions.  Anyway, here's
goes...  

1.) I was over to the library the other day, and I
found two books.  The first was Win32 Core API, and
the second is COM and ATL 3.0.  They looked
interesting enough, so I checked them out.  I just
wondered if anyone is familiar with them and knows
whether or not they will help out with learning how to
do good windows programming and learnng the Dev-C++
IDE (at least from a coding standpoint).

2.) I'm trying to create menus, and I know I have
touse resource files to do it.  However, certain
menus/options seem standard, like "open", "new"
"save", "save as" and so on... and so I was wondering
if these standard routines are already written and can
be downloaded and just plugged into a project?

Thanks,

Will

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