Newbie Question

[Treva05]

Hi there, I'm self teaching C++ (I've had classes on Basic back in High School). I'm using Dev C++ And some books. I'm curious as to where to learn more about about windows applications, not dos programs. I don't really want to use Visual C++ to design my applications. Any advice is appreciated, thanks. Just in case you needed to know, I'm using Win XP and I'd be making very simple programs while learning. Thanks

[kirants]

If you are gonna be concentrating on the GUI aspects, a good start would be:
Programming Windows - Chalres Petzold (http://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/index.html)

Note that, the approach here is C style and not really C++ style. Just wanted to let you know.