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Summary: Excellent primer on WinInet and it's various applications
Review: Skonnard's book clearly explains the basics of using WinInet and provides useful examples that tie WinInet into other technologies that I use, such as COM, MFC and ASP. The author found a good balance between providing basic API details and contextual information for writing Internet client applications. Unlike some books that simply dive into the details with no context, this book contrasts WinInet with other options (e.g. Winsock), providing the right amount of context for real-world application development.
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Summary: Stick with the MSDN library and MS web site
Review: These sources cover everything you need about this fairly small API
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Summary: An excellent User's Guide for Microsoft's Wininet interface.
Review: This book contains enough tutorial and reference information to act as the User's Guide for writing Windows Internet client applications. If you don't know Wininet, you should get this book to learn it. If you know Wininet, this book will still teach you a thing or two.
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Summary: Well written, clear examples, through coverage.
Review: This book gives you everything you need in order to effectively use the WinInet DLL. The coverage is very complete the explanations clear and the code examples relevant and nicely written. The HTTP, FTP, And Gopher protocols are covered using both the MFC wrapper classes and the WinInet DLL directly. An intermediate to advanced C++ windows programmer will have no trouble getting through this book, beginners stay away. You will also need to have a at least a basic understanding of MFC in order to get the most out of this book. A strong recommendation for those needing to use the communications capabilities of the WinInet DLL.
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Summary: Good Overview with Examples
Review: This book was laid out very nicely and covered all the topics a developer needs to know in order to create Internet-enabled applications. And I agree with the other reviewers that it may be the best book on WinInet (isn't it the ONLY book?), can be used as a reference guide, and the asynchronous section was insightful.However, for a developer who is trying to take these APIs in a new direction (really do some hard-core ATL with C++) with COM, I found the book a bit lacking. [Admittedly, this book was focused on applications, not objects]. I needed more information about creating UI-less COM objects and perhaps I was looking for this book to do more than it claims. For example, the pre-IE5 WinInet API set doesn't support UNICODE and that information is key to C++ COM developers. Definitive Guide? Not quite. If you're looking to do some hard-core COM development with WinInet, I'd stick with the WinInet Reference on Microsoft's site, grab a good ATL reference and go from there (espeically if you're someone who can pick up a new, relatively small API set quickly. There's really nothing to WinInet). If you're just using VB to create your COM objects or application, then this book is a good resource.
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Summary: Excellent coverage / gets one started quickly!
Review: This is one great book that gets you started early and covers most of the programming concepts. Highly recommended for the serious programmer.
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Summary: Nice and neat!
Review: Very good book if you want to start developing with WinInet. Excellent content and easy to follow logic. Valuable code samples. Besides WinInet reference/code, the book has easy-to-follow parts on TCP/IP and other internet protocols. I wish other authors had the same clarity and transparent style.
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Summary: Decent intro, but too lightweight to be of any serious use
Review: While I did get a fair amount of usefull information out of this book, I found myself having to go back to the SDK documentation quite a bit before being able to write anything usefull. Anyone expecting to be able to develop ISAPI extensions will be especially disappointed.
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Summary: Best WinInet book
Review: WinInet is the best API for developing internet apps, and this is the best book on WinInet. It gives you the background that you need to understand internet app development with ftp, HTTP, Gopher, etc. and then shows you how to do it in C++, MFC, or Visual Basic. The book also helps you avoid common mistakes. I'm a programmer and I normally hate to read books, but this one kept me interested. The text and the sample apps help get you programming for the internet quickly.
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Summary: Excellent Coverage of Wininet
Review: Yes, you can read the on-line docs about Wininet, but this book covers the subject in a more comprehensive, organised manner. Great code samples. Good section on COM component categories. Improved my understanding of how the Internet and HTTP work.
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