Detailed Description

Including this header provides access to a subset of the Win32 API that consists of the most frequently used components, and can be used as a less cumbersome drop-in replacement for windows.h most of the time.

It is specifically designed to avoid well-known issues that can arise when simply including windows.h, such as non-portable definitions of min and max.

Generally, any specific Windows API headers that are not included by this one can simply be included afterwards to keep bloat to a minimum.

Warning: This header will not work if you need to use Windows GDI+ due to their reliance on Microsoft's definition of min and max.