Creating menus in code...

Is there a way to create and manage menus through code without using MFC (the CMenu Object)? I am not using MFC because i made my own class to make cretaing windows easier and i want to be able to make a menu from code so that I don't have to worry about what IDE im using. Is this possible?

The MFC CMenu class is one of the thinnest API wrappers that MFC has. Just look for functions that have the same name as the CMenu methods in the WinAPI documentation.