Ways to advanced coding

[brian]

This might be totally of topic but I still ask for some help.
This question is mainly directed to guys like maggotboy.

Please tell me how to fish :)

Can you guys recommend some books which show you how to code stuff like windows hooks and so on. I have basic knowledge about c/c++ but I lack in depth information about windows API...

Are there any books out there you can recommend to learn about advanced windows coding? Please help, I am really lost on this issue.

Thank you!

[LordCrush]

Interesting Question !!!! :)

thanx for asking it !!! I would apreciate some hints too :D

[baelang]

I knew just about zero when it came to windows programming before i started on the keysniffer stuff. here are the references i found:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html

http://www.mingw.org/docs.shtml

and this one is a particularly good reference (surprising considering who published it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
(click on library)

enjoy!

[throx]

http://msdn.microsoft.com is the best information source out there. Especially good are the backissues of MSDN Magazine and MSJ Magazine. I would heartily recommend subscriptions to MSDN magazine (and subscriptions to MSDN itself, but that's expensive).

A good book is "Inside Windows 2000" (David Solomon) - teaches you what goes on under the hood which lets you make a lot of sense of what goes on above the hood.

Fundamentally though, a lot of it is just sitting down and writing stuff to see what works. There's really no substitute for experience.

[LordCrush]

Thank you :)