Dan Appleman's Win32 API puzzle book and tutorial for Visual Basic programmers
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Dan Appleman's Win32 API puzzle book and tutorial for Visual Basic programmers
（Books for professionals by professionals）
Apress, c1999
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The key to accessing the power of every operating system is its application programming interface (API). Visual Basic can access only part of the Windows API without special help. To write the most powerful possible programs, VB programmers need to work with all of the API. The big problem for VB programmers in trying to do so is that all of the available documentation on the Windows API is written for C++ programmers. In other words, the directions for using the API is written in a language that VB programmers don't understand.
With a writing style that combines technical competence, humor, and a bit of "attitude," Appleman proves once again in this long-awaited complement to his previous bestseller, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API, that learning advanced technology can (and should) be fun.
Table of Contents
Part I - The Puzzles: In the Beginning. Feeling Comfortable? In the Groove. OLE Smoke!- Rocket Science.- Part II - The Solutions.- Part III - The Tutorials: Tutorial 1: Finding Functions. Tutorial 2: Memory, Where It All Begins. Tutorial 3: A Bool and Its Bitfields are Soon Parted. Tutorial 4: How DLL Calls Work: Inside a Stack Frame. Tutorial 5: The ByVal keyword: The Solution to 90 Percent of All API Problems. Tutorial 6: C++ Variables Meet Visual Basic. Tutorial 7: Classes, Structures and User-Defined Types. Tutorial 8: Porting C Header Files. Tutorial 9: Inside A DLL File: Exploring the DumpInfo Program. Tutorial 10: A Case Study: The Service API. Tutorial 11: A Case Study: Reading the Event Long. Appendix A: Hints. Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions. Appendix C: APIGID32.DLL Library. Index
Contents of CD-ROM: Sample code for all puzzles, solutions, and tutorials, VB 6.0 and 5.0-compatible source code, An API function database and search utility.
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