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Summary: Get the internet internals here
Review: A handy book covering various aspects of the Internet protocols; sample application simple enough to illustrate the concepts.If you want to learn WinInet programming, this will be a great start. I bought this book while I had to research ISAPI but found coverage on ISAPI just adequate. Wish the author comes up with a second edition or print with more alternatives to ISAPI.
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Summary: The definitive guide to the WinInet API
Review: Aaron Skonnard has accomplished quite a feat - he actually explained the intricacies of the WinInet API in a very understandable manner. He showed not only the practical use of the API, but the underlying implementation; he explained the various protocols (HTTP, FTP and Gopher) well and the WinInet implementations of them. He discussed both the client and server side of the WinInet API and gave a great networking primer for anyone new to networking. There have been several books that touched upon the WinInet API, but only dedicated a couple chapters to it. This book is the first resource that performs more than a general overview, in fact it provides all the information one would need to use the API in a professional environment. As I develop Windows Internet applications, this book will find a permanent home on my desk!
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Summary: First impression
Review: I arrived at this book when I was doing searches on a refrence to help me use WinInet with Visual Basic. The book is not really a VB book at all. It barely mentions how to accomplish the tasks of their projects in VB. Everything is aimed at C++.
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Summary: Not For VB
Review: I arrived at this book when I was doing searches on a refrence to help me use WinInet with Visual Basic. The book is not really a VB book at all. It barely mentions how to accomplish the tasks of their projects in VB. Everything is aimed at C++.
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Summary: First impression
Review: I just got the book. I skimmed all chapters and read selected chapters. Note, this book is pretty old, but I think it still has practical value. The book talks about Windows 95 and NT 4, but more importantly, it talks about IE 4, which is the foundation of IE 5 and 6. I think the WinInet functionality began w/ IE4 and has not changed much, if at all. The book does illustrate all examples in C++; however, there are enough non-language-specific *explanations* throughout the book to give it some value to everyone--I say this mainly because there are no other books on WinInet, at present, and clear explanations are not easily found on the Web. I know C++ so I cannot say how easy or hard it is to follow the examples if you don't know C++. I'd love to see a newer book on this topic that would cover VB/C# .Net and IE 6, but until then, this book is my primary source for WinInet info.
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Summary: Excellent instruction on a sparsely documented topic
Review: I reviewed this book for the publisher and found it to be an excellent tutorial on a subject that has been begging for better coverage. The author helps you understand the basic protocols (FTP,HTTP, and Gopher) and then shows how to use WinInet to quickly and effectively apply them. His coverage of asynchronous WinInet is especially good. As if that wasn't already enough, he then shows you how to utilize WinInet with other internet technologies to implement powerful applications. The reusable COM components that he uses as examples are well thought out and easy to plug in to your own code. Highly reccomended for anyone looking to add internet features to their application or better understand the intricacies of WinInet.
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Summary: Decent intro, but too lightweight to be of any serious use
Review: I was in a pinch. The client wanted automatic downloads of files from a web site AND an ftp site. What to do? I grabbed a copy of this book and got to it. This book was an excellent resource for me to get started in Wininet programming. The only warning I will give about the book is that there is only one small chapter on using Wininet with VB. However, the conversion for basic funtionality is fairly simple and if you are this far, chances are good that you will be using C++ anyway.
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Summary: Good book for those Internet support projects.
Review: I was in a pinch. The client wanted automatic downloads of files from a web site AND an ftp site. What to do? I grabbed a copy of this book and got to it. This book was an excellent resource for me to get started in Wininet programming. The only warning I will give about the book is that there is only one small chapter on using Wininet with VB. However, the conversion for basic funtionality is fairly simple and if you are this far, chances are good that you will be using C++ anyway.
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Summary: Excellent intro to the WinInet API.
Review: I was up and coding within a few hours of reading chapters 1 through 3. The clearly written source code demonstrates the principles and pitfalls of working with the API in no time at all.
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Summary: Basic introductory book
Review: If you know something about WinInet already, don't expect to learn new low-level tidbits or tricks. MSDN is all you need in the way of reference. Buy it if you want a well-organized tutorial.
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