Windows Graphics Programming Win32 GDI and DirectDraw®

Preface

To be truly valuable, a new book on Windows programming should be in-depth, complete, up to date, accurate, practical, and useful.

An in-depth book should go beneath the API layer to talk about API design rationale, internal data structure, and implementation outline. It should provide spying and exploration tools for you.

A complete and up-to-date book should focus on the best implementation of Win32 API so far, Windows 2000, which will be basis for future Microsoft operating systems, and cover its new features.

An accurate book should be based on actual exploration of Win32 API features and verify all the details. Relying solely on Microsoft documentation is definitely not good enough, because it merely describes the abstract Win32 API ...