Visual Basic Developer's Guide to the Win32 API

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Visual Basic Developer's Guide to the Win32 API

by Steve Brown
List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $27.99
ISBN: 078212559X
Publisher: Sybex (January, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 286,952
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 out of 5


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Rating: 2 out of 5


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Poor reference. The low used-book price reflect its value.
Despite the several negative reviews, I bought this book, hoping that the one five-star review might actually be right. However, after carefully reading through 6 chapters and browsing through the entire book, I had to agree with the negative reviews. There were no code examples on the website before Chapter 5 (the author claimed to have). The sample code for Chapter 9 Shell APIs - Launching Applications was a mess. It simply didn't realize most of the functions it claimed to be able to realize, and it had many errors (e.g., missing class modules). It seemed like the three examples in Chapter 9 were badly bundled together.

There are a lot of unnecessary underscores (_ for continuation of code) in the code examples - seems to be an effort to make the book longer and sell for more money.

In conclusion, this book is just an MSDN dump. And the used book price of around $3 to $4 accurately reflects it value.

Rating: 2 out of 5


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OK reference
This book is limited to basic API functions. Much of it looks like a dump of the MSDN literature, slighty edited. There is a brief discussion of general issues regarding API calls from Visual Basic.

Rating: 2 out of 5


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Fair Resource
Within a limited scope, this book does a decent job of covering simple API functions. A lot of it looks like a dump of the MSDN documentation, slightly cleaned up. There is some introductory discussion of general issues regarding API calling from VB.

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