Scott's code and other ponderings... » Win32 API http://www.scottleckie.com ...how hard can it be?... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:55:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ahhh… the olden days… DialogBox, MessagePumps and the joy of HWNDs http://www.scottleckie.com/2010/06/ahhh-the-olden-days-dialogbox-messagepumps-and-the-joy-of-hwnds/ http://www.scottleckie.com/2010/06/ahhh-the-olden-days-dialogbox-messagepumps-and-the-joy-of-hwnds/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:57:22 +0000 Scott Leckie http://www.scottleckie.com/?p=127 How soon we forget. A few years ago, I weaned myself off of Visual C++ and MFC and toyed (briefly) with ASP.NET

Now, I'm finally getting to grips with C#, .NET and CLR 4.0 and Silverlight.

And, all of a sudden, I'm thrust back to 1996. Why? Because we need to write a GINA (Graphical Identification aNd Authentication) component as part of a password reset application.

So, here we are, with definitely no CLR (which rules out C# and CLR) and recommended against the MFC. So, we're literally back in the days of defining dialog boxes as a set of resource definitions, and copious calls to CreateWindow. And that's before we get to the single threaded message pump that is WndProc.

Couple all of that [...]]]> http://www.scottleckie.com/2010/06/ahhh-the-olden-days-dialogbox-messagepumps-and-the-joy-of-hwnds/feed/ 3