Windows API in C/C++

Help, I have no idea how to correctly use the API to create windows and fill them with text and shit.

Give me information, tutorials, etc.

>>71
HelloWin32 = 7.50 KiB (7,680 bytes)

HelloWPF = 4.00 KiB (4,096 bytes) + (DotNetFx = 23.1 MiB (24,265,736 bytes))/Number of WPF programs.

I'll let you argue with
>>66
Yes, clearly using a language designed for the job in question is cheating. After all, that would be easy and painless, and we wouldn't want that, now would we?