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Dan Appleman's Win32 Api Puzzle Book and Tutorial for Visual Basic Programmers
by Dan Appleman
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: $27.97
ISBN: 1893115011
Publisher: APress (March, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 39,495
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Different, but worthwhile
Despite what has to be just about the longest and worst title of any book I've seen, the Puzzle book packs some worthwhile content between its covers. The puzzles themselves were only of limited scope and interest, but the second half of the book - the tutorials - are worth the price of admission. Anyone who wants to go beyond the basics of the Win32 API and utilize exported DLL functions will appreciate the sections on DLL calling conventions, C++ header conversion, and passing structures/UDT's as parameters. If you don't own a copy of Dan's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, buy that book first. It's an absolute essential for your library. However, the Puzzle book makes a nice addition as well.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book will empower you...
When I was researching how to access HID-class USB peripherals from VB applications, I learned from the Windows 98 docs that I needed to call a series of API functions to locate the device and learn about its capabilities. Many of the calls involved passing and returning complex structures. I could find no documentation on the calls for Visual-Basic programmers. Although I had some experience with API calls, my initial attempts at calling these functions didn't get far.Then I bought this book. First I read it straight through (though I do admit to reading each solution after the puzzle, rather than waiting til the end). Then I went back to my code with the book at hand and eventually got it all working. Plus, I understood exactly why the code had to be the way it was in order to work. This isn't a cookbook. Thinking is required. One sentence I took particular comfort in when things weren't quite working yet was, "It is ultimately possible to handle any structure, no matter what type of data it contains." (p. 363) This is an excellent and useful book that will enable you to do any API call that Windows might throw your way.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book!
If you use API's, or want to use API's, then I suggest getting this book. There are so many API calls out there, that no book contains them all. This book helps you solve the API so you can use them in your applications. Definately a "must have" for any programmer out there worth his salt.
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