Is there a way to forward-declare the HINSTANCE type from the WinAPI without including the full (and big) windows.h header? For example, if I have a class RenderWindow which owns an HINSTANCE mIns...

The HINSTANCE of a win32 application is passed to WinMain, but is there any other way of determining the current HINSTANCE (in case you couldn't tell, I'm very new to win32 programming!)? I need to...

The definition of WinMain is: int CALLBACK WinMain( _In_ HINSTANCE hInstance, _In_ HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, _In_ LPSTR lpCmdLine, _In_ int nCmdShow ); What I understand is: hInstance...