Windows programming can be a very tedious task even for experienced programmers. Numerous API functions and windows messages, Component Object Model and other things on one hand make applications very powerful, on the other hand it can be very discouraging since even for a simple application one has to invest a lot of time and effort to build it. The latter is especially true for people in computer related sciences like bioinformatics when the scientist is primary concentrated on its scientific stuff and doesn?t really want to understand all bells and whistles of win32 API.
