Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9781893115019
ISBN: 1893115011
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 477
Publication Date: 1999-03
Publisher: Apress
Sales Rank: 543957
Studio: Apress
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Rating:  - 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.
Rating: - An Excellent Companion
As a VB programmer you should have at least 2 books on yourshelf: Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 APIand this one. The former teaches by showing - serving as a reference book when you are trying enhance the functionality of your VB application. The latter teaches by doing - allowing your mind to actively grasp the concepts behind API calls, structures, and pointers, instead of mindlessly hacking through APIs, tossing in variables, hoping for success. The puzzles in ... Read More
Rating: - It is a useful book in programming
You cann't programming a good VB without it
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Unclear on the concept
There's something fundamentally wrong with the concept of a puzzle book for an application programming interface. A book about an API should yield clarity, not puzzles.
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