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Summary: CGurus,VBBlackBelt,COM,MIcrosoft,un world of Confusion
Review: It is difficult for a VB programmer to translate in vb the expression of C family. Example : confusion about pointers between pointer variable and pointer ,between Vtable Interface and object structure.e.i. between contents and container. and light for object Nevertheless,is very good for stack,hexa etc and I advise further information the reading of article at RomanPress.com and utana.com
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Summary: This book is a companion title to my well known API Guide
Review: My Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API covers about 900 API functions. This book covers the other 7600+. How? By teaching you how to read the Microsoft documentation and understand the API calling process so thoroughly that you'll be able to correctly declare and call even the trickiest API functions. Real learning comes from doing - not reading, and this book starts with 32 real-world puzzles based on the many questions I've received from readers of my other books. Once you can solve them, you'll know that you're an expert. The book also contains 11 in-depth tutorials on all aspects of calling API functions from VB. You'll also become acquainted with API functions ranging from the registry to Remote Access to OLE to the NT event log. The book is designed to be a companion to my Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API. There is little overlap between them. I think you'll find this book to be one of the most effective, challenging and fun technical books you've read. It was certainly a blast to write:-)
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Summary: A unique companion to my previous VB Guide to the Win32 API
Review: The Win32 API is a powerful resource to Visual Basic programmers, but one that is growing rapidly. Even my "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API" only covers about 900 API functions, and while it is good at teaching Windows fundementals (from a VB perspective) and the basics of handling API functions from VB, I've found that more was needed. This book is designed to help you access the other 7500+ API functions by giving you the tools to read the Microsoft documentation and understand the VB-API interface clearly enough so you can handle even the most complex API call. The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of 32 API puzzles - that increase in difficulty from relatively easy to truly devious. These offer real world problems for you to learn from and are based on the thousands of questions I've received from readers over the years. The solutions to the puzzles include in-depth explanations of the problem and the solution. In addition to the usual API subjects, you'll find puzzles on subjects including the system registry, Remote access, the OLE API and the NT event log. The second part of the book consists of 11 tutorials that cover virtually every aspect of calling API functions from Visual Basic. Though accessible to beginners, the real target audience is the intermediate VB programmer who wants to become a true expert. The tutorials emphasize some of the trickier aspects of API work including structure alignment, buffer manipulation, stack frames, and reading C header files - subjects unfamiliar to many VB programmers. I think you will find this to be an excellent companion to my Win32 API guide, and due to the unusual puzzle-solution format, a fun challenge as well.
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Summary: Unclear on the concept
Review: 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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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book is a good companion for his Win32 API book. The book is entertaining ... and it makes you think. Some of the puzzles gave me motivation to explore areas of the Windows API that I hadn't used before. Be warned, you will NEED his Win32 API book. The header files and an MSDN subscription are also very helpful.
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Summary: Excellent way to teach all of the api's at once
Review: Though I've often seen Appleman quoted as 'the man' I've never shared that opinion. I own the VB5 versions of perplexing and win32 api, and they are useful, but too much of those books come across as a large advert for his company. To do things Dan's way you need these 10 components that he'll sell you...This one is a little harder to blame that way. Me, I like puzzles, so this was too much of a temptation. The layout and content of the book are quite good, I've come across the odd error, but nothing major. Unless of course you were trying to use that particular portion for the demo to the CEO ... This is the book to pick up when you want to rest your brain from the problem you were just working on, not to help fix it, you need either his other books or Pattinson/Kurhana/McKinney etc., but to keep you focus on the problem domain, and let the background thread spin over really solving the problem. This will no doubt help you in future problem solvings, just do not expect to pick it up and go to the index to fix today's bug for the CEO demo...
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Summary: As a puzzle book worthwhile, but it is a companion...
Review: Though I've often seen Appleman quoted as 'the man' I've never shared that opinion. I own the VB5 versions of perplexing and win32 api, and they are useful, but too much of those books come across as a large advert for his company. To do things Dan's way you need these 10 components that he'll sell you... This one is a little harder to blame that way. Me, I like puzzles, so this was too much of a temptation. The layout and content of the book are quite good, I've come across the odd error, but nothing major. Unless of course you were trying to use that particular portion for the demo to the CEO ... This is the book to pick up when you want to rest your brain from the problem you were just working on, not to help fix it, you need either his other books or Pattinson/Kurhana/McKinney etc., but to keep you focus on the problem domain, and let the background thread spin over really solving the problem. This will no doubt help you in future problem solvings, just do not expect to pick it up and go to the index to fix today's bug for the CEO demo...
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Summary: This book will empower you...
Review: 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 this book. First I read it straight through (though I do admit to reading each solution after the puzzle, rather than waiting til the end). Then I went back to my code with the book at hand and eventually got it all working. Plus, I understood exactly why the code had to be the way it was in order to work. This isn't a cookbook. Thinking is required. One sentence I took particular comfort in when things weren't quite working yet was, "It is ultimately possible to handle any structure, no matter what type of data it contains." (p. 363) This is an excellent and useful book that will enable you to do any API call that Windows might throw your way.
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Summary: It is a useful book in programming
Review: You cann't programming a good VB without it
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