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Hi to all! I'm a unix/linux system programmer and i decided to expand
my horizons learning programming on windows platforms. One of my
friends uses BCB, and I'm positively biased on using it for my
application development. But there are a million things that i don't
know, and, before buying the product (or dl the demo), I would know
some answers to my questions (the critical ones, at least).
I know VCL libraries, and I think they're a wonderful way to forget
all the hassle of building windows and components "by hand", but I was
wondering if there's a way to use BCB for more low-level, "metal
bashing" programming.
I'm into system programming and AudioDSP / MIDI developing, and now I
ask you: Is there a (easy) way to use Win32/other SDKs' API with BCB?
For example: I just downloaded Steimberg's ASIO and VST sdks, that are
vital to my work; is there a way to include the desidered DLLs in my
BCB project and just start calling the functions? Is there a way to
call the low-level Windows API (for example, create a thread, open a
socket, become a daemon (think they're called "services" under
windows, are they))?
Is, generally, there a way to link a 3rd party collection of libraries
and use them?
If the answer is "yes", could you please point me to some resource
explicating how to do that?
Thanks in advance, good day -or night- to all!

Daniel Mendoza