Talk:Windows API/to do

• Describe the relationship of Windows API to .net and WinFX
• Check the compiler support section for accuracy and add references
• Rework the leader so that it contains only high-level info; focus on the non-programmer reader; move low-level info into suitable sections (after the leader)
• In the history section, describe/expand on transition from win16 to win32 and then win64

• [bad idea: this page is _not_ about a GUI Windows application; Windows API can be used for a non-graphical Windows program so describing GUI is too detailed for this page] add a short section on the anatomy of an average Windows API application, just going through the basic concepts, like:
  • message based system with callback functions and everything
  • object-oriented inspired window classes system
  • exactly what a window is in the context of the WinAPI (everything from desktop windows to buttons)
  • keep is short -- should not get to function name level like it was before
    • link "Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework is a .Net wrapper library for Windows API." no longer exists as of 2/10/2016

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