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Summary: A must have book
Review: After buying many useless books on the VB API programming I bought this one after I read the reviews, and it is the ultimate reference ever.
If you are thinking of buying it, read the other reviews - they describe it more than I do - and go ahead and get it. It's worth every ounce of its weight in pure gold.
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Summary: Must have for experienced VB programmers
Review: Every Visual Basic programmer who needs to write Windows applications that harness the power of the Win32 API definitely needs to add this book to their Visual Basic book collection. In the past only C programmer's had the ability to access the Win32 api. Since the release of VB5/6 this luxury has been available to the VB programmer as well. This book is not for beginner Visual Basic programmers. It's for expierienced programmer's who want to tap into the power of the Win32 api.Although you can create full robust windows applications in Visual Basic without the need to access the win32 API, there are certain things that can't be done or are much more difficult to accomplish without the help of the API. After reading this book you will have the skills to create more powerful windows applications with the help of the Win32 API than ever before.
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Summary: It's the Bible
Review: For as long as there's been an API for VB developers, Dan has been THE source for reference on how to use it. He is the definitive authority. (How many people can earn that title about anything?) Use this book FIRST. Then check with other sources of you need to.
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Summary: A must have for the serious VB Programmer
Review: I would not think of doing without Dan's API guide. I started Windows in 1991 with C and SDK. In those days you had to learn the API to get your work done. But, after VB 3.0, I got completely away from C and intimate knowledge of the API. Dan's book de-mystifies the Win32 API. New and intermediate VB programmers will find his explanations easy to follow. Dan tells you why things work the way they do and warns about any pitfalls using VB for API calls. (There are not many problems, but they do exist.) I you have not got this book and you are serious about VB, I recommend you get it.
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Summary: dan appleman is the API god
Review: it works well as a desktop reference but it also takes a little time to explain some of the more hardcore concepts. i recommend this book to ANYONE wanting to start and sucessfully finish an API project.
from this book it is apparent that mr Appleman believes VB can do ANYTHING by using a little API and, after owning it for a few months, you'll know it's true and you'll know how to make it happen too. a must-have for any self-respecting vb programmer
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Summary: Quit Looking Around...Get This Book
Review: This book is comprehensive. I have learned more about Win16 and Win32 API in 4 chapters than in several books I have read thus far. As you are probably already aware, Win API adds power by extending Visual Basic programming. If you want to understand Visual Basic and it's C programming interface, stop browsing for a moment and buy this book. This is by far the best programming book I have read, and I suspect it's just a useful for the advanced programmer as it is to the novice. This book better be in your library.
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Summary: Not For The Faint-Hearted
Review: This book is definitely for Advanced VB developers. Accessing the API is something that you do not do all the time as a VB developer. It will tell you though almost everything you need to know how to access the Windows API from VB, IF you have the heart for it. If you don't have it, probably Appleman's other book, "Developing COM/ActiveX Components from Visual Basic 6" is for you. Not only is it easier to understand and truly worthwhile, but you'll be easily proficient in designing classes, objects, DLLs, Exes, Controls, etc., extremely useful concepts I never thought I'll understand before I started reading it. Now, those, I can say, can even be for the faint-hearted.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is great! Covers a lot on the windows 32bit API, nice.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK
Review: This book is useless for any work or learning.
All samples are made with authors' functions which are in compiled dll written in C++ !? Each chapter has at least 30% about porting from Win16 to Win32. And book is filled with listings of forms and projects. If you remove all this from book, the rest is less than 100 pages with confused explanations. Do not buy this book. There are much better books around.
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Summary: For Hardcore VB/VBA programmers
Review: This is a very long book and actually very comprehensive. It
gives required information for you to do your own construction to access Win32 API calls in VB, but then it also gives you plenty of constructed code so that you can just use them right away. The meat of the book is Part2: Win32 API Functions. Here is where you'll find conversions already done. You can simply go
to the appropriate section of the book and look for your function conversion. The index is rather well put together, start there of course. But you may ask: "What if my conversion isn't in the book?" Well, theres good news -- he explains how to do the conversion. And whatever section (for example, Bitmaps and Icons) of Win32 your funcion falls in, in Part 2 there is a chapter for it, and in the beginning of that chapter Dan goes on and on about relevent attributes about the potential data type (e.g., Handles, or Device Independent Bitmaps) you'll need to find a VB counterpart for. This book is exTREMELY long, so don't think that you'll be reading through it. It's not designed to be read that way. Here is how you use the book. Look for the Win32 function in the index. If you dont see it, go to the section of the book that most likely deals with it (for example, go to Device Contexts to find SelectObject). If its there simply copy the conversion. If its not read how to do the conversion then (don't read how to do it until you need to do it -- save yourself some time and thinking). Why only 4 stars? Eh, it's kinda boring. And I'm one of those C++ guys at heart. And we SelectObject()s the old fashion way. =) I should also mention that this book has examples in every chapter. Me.SayGoodbye()
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