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adzmtoday at 2:15 PM1 replyview on HN

WTL and ATL also, especially if you need to do com stuff


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pjmlptoday at 5:52 PM

You will need it, because since Windows Vista, most new APIs are COM based, as they redid Longhorn ideas in C++ instead of .NET, and WinRT also builds upon it.

Classical Win32 C API surface, with some exceptions, is mostly stuck in Windows XP view of the world.