Programming Windows

Before moving past Visual Basic classic, let’s take a look at how Microsoft evolved VB…

And now, a brief interlude while we ponder the personal computing coulda, shoulda been, Microsoft…

Visual Basic was instantly popular and its ease of use and suitability for application development…

Visual Basic was the right tool at the right time, and it was everything that…

While this article series focuses on Windows, Microsoft’s empire was initially built on an even…

In researching the history of Microsoft Basic, I realized I had forgotten something: We need…

As a fun preview for the next several articles in this series, here’s “hello, world”…

It's time to say goodbye to the Windows API, which was as hastily cobbled-together as…

A Windows-based take on “hello, world” neatly explains why Windows API programming was never going…

The process of writing a Windows application with the native Windows API in the C…

The original design of Windows was inexorably tied to that of the Intel x86 microprocessors…

The book The C Programming Language from 1988 includes a simple introductory program called hello,…

In the beginning, there was Windows. And a supporting Windows Application Programming Interface that came…

To fully understand why Windows was designed the way it was, we must go back…

In 2020, Windows will celebrate its 35th anniversary. Here’s a rough timeline of each release,…

I’m starting a new series of articles that will examine how Windows application development has…