Limping and dragging itself along the ground with it's arms.

I wrote the IrDA code as a proof of concept, and now I have to get to the meat of the programming (UI and data access). Since this is my first time writing any kind of Windows code, I wanted to learn the basics first, so I bought the Charles Petzold book "Programming Windows" to learn win32 api programming. I guess I have to just take the plunge and get my environment set up to do some serious development. I did not like using Microsoft's Embedded Visual C IDE, so I need to set up my PC to let me use makefiles instead. I do not think many people use makefiles when writing windows programs.