What is a pointer

Can somebody tell me what a pointer is? I’m interested because they are used in the Win32 APIs.

they point to different parts of the memory

example:

CDC* pDC
pDC-> {function here}

i also saw a post on this too. i'll try to find it

Here it is!!! probably a better explaination than mine LOL
http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=27271

Thanks for the help Zej.