Displaying Images in a Window + Win32

	case WM_PAINT:
		{

				if(firstTime)
				{
					
					
					if(status == Gdiplus::Ok)
					{
						HWND staticwindow = GetDlgItem(hwnd,IDC_STATIC);
						HDC dc = GetDC(staticwindow);
						
						const int size = ad.message.size();
						char* placeholder = new char[size+1];
						strcpy(placeholder,ad.message.c_str());

						placeholder[size+1] = '\0';
						
						WCHAR temp[100];
						mbstowcs(temp, placeholder, size+1);
						
						Gdiplus::Bitmap srcBitmap(temp, FALSE);
						Gdiplus::Graphics wndGraphics(dc);

						Gdiplus::SizeF SIZE;
						srcBitmap.GetPhysicalDimension(&SIZE);

						int height = SIZE.Height;
						int width = SIZE.Width;

						wndGraphics.DrawImage(&srcBitmap, 0, 0);
						
						SetWindowPos(hwnd,HWND_BOTTOM,0,0,width,height,SWP_NOMOVE |SWP_NOZORDER );
						SetWindowPos(staticwindow,HWND_BOTTOM,0,0,width,height,SWP_NOMOVE );

						//SetWindowPos(hwnd,GetParent(hwnd),0,0,0,0,SWP_NOSIZE|SWP_NOMOVE);
					

						
						//RepaintWindow(hwnd);
					
						
						
						firstTime = true;
						
						//Gdiplus::GdiplusShutdown(dwToken);
						
					}//C:\\Documents and Settings\\Alex\\My Documents\\My Pictures\alex.jpg

				}

#include <windows.h>
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM) ;
int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
{
    static TCHAR szAppName [] = TEXT ("myAppName") ;
    HBITMAP hBitmap ;
    HBRUSH hBrush ;
    HWND hwnd ;
    MSG msg ;
    WNDCLASS wndclass ;
    hBitmap = LoadBitmap (hInstance, TEXT ("ResourceName")) ;
    hBrush = CreatePatternBrush (hBitmap) ;
    DeleteObject (hBitmap) ;
    wndclass.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW ;
    wndclass.lpfnWndProc = WndProc ;
    wndclass.cbClsExtra = 0 ;
    wndclass.cbWndExtra = 0 ;
    wndclass.hInstance = hInstance ;
    wndclass.hIcon = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION) ;
    wndclass.hCursor = LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW) ;
    wndclass.hbrBackground = hBrush ;
    wndclass.lpszMenuName = NULL ;
    wndclass.lpszClassName = szAppName ;
    if (!RegisterClass (&wndclass))
    {
        MessageBox (NULL, TEXT ("Window Class registration failed!"),
        szAppName, MB_ICONERROR) ;
        return 0 ;
    }
    hwnd = CreateWindow (szAppName, TEXT ("using Bitmap as background demo"),
    WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
    CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
    CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
    NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL) ;
    ShowWindow (hwnd, iCmdShow) ;
    UpdateWindow (hwnd) ;
    while (GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
        TranslateMessage (&msg) ;
        DispatchMessage (&msg) ;
    }
    DeleteObject (hBrush) ;
    return msg.wParam ;
}
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (msg)
    {
        case WM_DESTROY:
            PostQuitMessage (0) ;
            return 0 ;
    }
    return DefWindowProc (hwnd, msg, wParam, lParam) ;
}

----------myAppName.rc (excerpts)----------------------
//Microsoft Developer Studio generated resource script.
#include "resource.h"
#include "afxres.h"
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Bitmap
ResourceName BITMAP DISCARDABLE "fileName.bmp"