[rohan]

.NET is not effective as much and nor is C#. Try using D, it has complete support for the Win32 API and if not, all C headers can be translated to D header imports.

Anyways, even if you use C/C++/C#, the books suggested by Zeeshan are good, but learning MFC won't help much, as it is always better to learn the API first, because MFC can do only as much as the API can do and it's just not the case vice-versa.

my 2 cents

rohan