I have one of Microsoft's SDKs, but have no prior experience programming in Windows. (Long story, but it's legit.)

I'm generally knowledgeable about C++, but am having a fit learning how to use the SDK to make menus and toolbars. I'm not talking at the programming level, that seems relatively straightforward, I'm talking at the "paint program" level.

For example, I tried to create a new workspace and one of the options was blank workspace and one was a "hello world" workspace, complete with a menu item to dismiss the window (this is Windows CE programming), I chose the "hello world" version. While this program/sample-workspace compiles and runs just fine on the emulator, I can not pull up the resources tab and graphically edit the menu items because some keyword, **in the automatically generated .rc file** is not defined!

I'd like a good reference book that focuses on THIS aspect of Visual C++. I realize such a section is probably buried in a book about general C++ programming, and that's OK, as long as the section on my issue is a good one.

Can any one recommend anything?

Thanks

I'm not one for programing on the Windows CE. But I am also learning it Jasma's C++ programers bible is a good book. Also believe it or not the OLD OLD borland C+ & C++ books are worth a look. other then that I can't help you much more I also am learning this as we speak.

If you run accross some books let me know also.