to!string and windows programming

[Phil Lavoie]

On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 18:28:04 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> On 12/24/12, Phil Lavoie <maidenphil at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I am currently going through the much recommended book
>> "Programming Windows" and experiencing some stuff. One of which
>> was formatting the hInstance and prevHInstance into a string.
>
> You need to initialize the runtime or you will get crashes as 
> soon as
> the GC allocates memory.
>
> Note that many Programming Windows examples were translated 
> into D and
> you can find them here:
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming
>
> Here's an example how the runtime is initialized:
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/blob/master/Samples/Chap01/HelloMsg/HelloMsg.d
>
> See the `Runtime.initialize(&exceptionHandler);` call.

Wow buddy thanks for the accurate and most informative answer. I 
will be looking through those examples.

Thanks again!

Phil