... as I obviously did with a program later in this chapter. As with standard XML, strings can contain special characters beginning with the ampersand: • & is an ampersand • ' ... 5th, I used the C programming language. Sometime between the 3rd and 4th editions, my good friend Jeff Prosise said that he wanted to write Programming Windows with MFC, and that was fine ... API, and I wasn’t that thrilled with C++ either. As the years went by, Programming Windows acquired the reputation of being the book for programmers who needed to get close to the metal without...