bad breath, if you want to spend two cents please do it in general discussion.
The following should take you to Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Full Download which is a light wight 400meg windows.h file and is good for all xp/2k/98 development:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=484269E2-3B89-47E3-8EB7-1F2BE6D7123A&displaylang=en
If you have tried to install something else first and don't just have a clean visual studio express it pays to suss the readme completely before installing, there are 5000 lines of gotchas for the unclean. Oh but you MUST have run visual studio express at least once...
If you are running vista you will probably want that sdk, your b3dsdk c++ projects will still be xp compatible and allows tooling with v27 or whatever they are up to in dot net land.
If you are using lgpl libs I would seriously consider using devc or even blitzmax to manage your projects with the mingw tool chain.
IKG, you may want to begin by loading the application demo project that comes with the install, and then check out the "Creating Visual C++ Projects" docs incase you missed something, i tried to be as detailed as possible with the screenshots etc. but of course there is always room for improvement.
The following should take you to Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Full Download which is a light wight 400meg windows.h file and is good for all xp/2k/98 development:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=484269E2-3B89-47E3-8EB7-1F2BE6D7123A&displaylang=en
If you have tried to install something else first and don't just have a clean visual studio express it pays to suss the readme completely before installing, there are 5000 lines of gotchas for the unclean. Oh but you MUST have run visual studio express at least once...
If you are running vista you will probably want that sdk, your b3dsdk c++ projects will still be xp compatible and allows tooling with v27 or whatever they are up to in dot net land.
If you are using lgpl libs I would seriously consider using devc or even blitzmax to manage your projects with the mingw tool chain.
IKG, you may want to begin by loading the application demo project that comes with the install, and then check out the "Creating Visual C++ Projects" docs incase you missed something, i tried to be as detailed as possible with the screenshots etc. but of course there is always room for improvement.