[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 at 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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Anders