Stephan from the Visual C++ team has a nice introductory post on the Standard Template Library. Headover to http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/C9-Lectures-Introduction-to-STL-with-Stephan-T-Lavavej/ to watch the library and post your comments and...

MSDN has a series of articles and posts on how to program Windows applications using C++. Check out the articles at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381399.aspx . I must mention that the Module 3 focusing on Direct2D is a great one to learn how...