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    <p>As you can probably already tell from other answers and comments, the term "Windows Forms" is the name for a specific .NET technology.</p> <p>You seem to want to ask a question more along line of how to learn to write Windows programs that have a GUI (menus, buttons, windows, etc).</p> <p>There is no single way to write a Windows program. C++ itself doesn't know anything about Windows. Instead you will end up using some API or framework. So what you need to do is choose which particular one you want to use and then learn that.</p> <ul> <li>At the lowest level there is the raw Windows API. However it is a very C-like interface and few people would recommend starting there.</li> <li>Microsoft's C++ based framework for building Windows programs is MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). It was created long before .NET and C++/CLI and such. Being so old, there are aspects of it that haven't been able to change to keep with the times and so some people don't like it. But it's still supported and used. In fact, if you have a full version (not an express version) of Visual Studio then you already have MFC available.</li> <li>There are various other C++ frameworks that have come along more recently. Qt and WxWidgets are a couple of the bigger names. Many of these not only give you a way to create Windows programs, but also try to abstract away all the OS-specific details so that your code can be compiled to work on other OS's (like Linux or Mac) too. In my opinion, these are often more pleasant to work with than MFC once you learn how.</li> <li>Even though its not what you're asking for, many people would actually recommend using C# and .NET for making GUI programs in Windows. There are some nice aspects of that language and framework that make GUI programming easier.</li> </ul> <p>So you probably need to do a little investigation to determine what technology you actually want to learn and use. Then you can go searching for appropriate tutorials.</p>
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    1. POComprehensive tutorial for beginners on how to write Windows GUI programs
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    1. COThanks for the comments! I didn't know "Windows Forms" was the name for a specific .NET technology. Your educated guess that I want to learn how to write Windows programs that have a GUI is correct. I know C++ doesn't know anything about Windows and that I need to use some API or framework. I even know about the rest of the technologies you mention (the Windows API, MFC, .NET, C++/CLI, Qt, WxWidgets, C#).
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    2. COI have read several tutorials on C++ and been experienting a lot with making forms with Visual Studio 2008. The problem is I haven't found any more comprehensive tutorial for beginners on how to combine the C++ code with the forms. That's what I'm looking for.
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    3. COI recalled that the reason I want to use C++ is that it's supposed to be faster than C#. I also recalled that I have checked out several benchmarks of C++, C# and other computer languages and that according to these benchmarks C++ is about the fastest computer language there is (beside Assembly, but I don't indend to learn that).
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