Windows Application Books

[Coool]

Hi all,

It has been nearly 4 years since I have started developing with .NET - mostly with ASP.NET and SQL Server. I rarely got any time to work with Desktop application but now I want to get lower level knowledge of windows application - I mean hows window application works (Hows form is drawn, what kind of lower level objects are being used, how user control detect keystroke and up to what hierarchical level etc.)

Does anyone have idea of any decent book for this (like CLR with C# kind of deep information)?

[Shaggy Hiker]

If you want to go very low level, you might find Petzolds book on Windows Programming. It's written for C, but really gets into the weeds. Very dated, though. The most recent edition might still be ten years back. At the time, it was the definitive source, but there are probably more recent replacements.

[Coool]

Thanks man. I also found that Petzolds had written book for Windows Programming with C# also. So, should I purchase book of C or C#. Honestly, I would never going to use C for programming.

[Shaggy Hiker]

You wouldn't be buying it for the code examples, you would be buying it for the information about how Windows works. It's probably a fair chunk of change, though, and it is hard for me to say whether it would be worth it.