Code and Annotated Turing of Charles Petzold's books Comes to Programming Windows which teaches Win32 programming in C. I am a new computer science student who learns CCCC, but now uses C # and .NET for Windows programming, so I was wondering if Win32 is still relevant to professional Windows programs. Would be worth it to me, as a student, who wants to program Windows applications, to learn the Win32 API in depth covering this book?
It really depends on the applications you want to develop. These days, C # and .NET are perfectly suitable for most purposes. However, there are some types of applications that require certain dependencies (keeping the Shell extension in mind) as possible, which are not practical for doing .NET applications. For those of them you will need Win32.
As always, it gives at least one basic understanding of Win32, even if you are using .NET for most of your work.
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