Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the WIN32 API [With CDROM]

by Daniel Appleman

Book Overview

The world renowned Visual Basic to Win32 API resource Covers Win 95/98, WinNT, Visual Basic 4.0-6.0, and most VBA Languages. CD-ROM contains sample code, Desaware development tools, and a 30-minute... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672315904
• ISBN13: 9780672315909
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1550 Pages
• Weight: 5.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Essential Book For All Visual Basic Programmers

This book is *the* book for all Visual Basic programmers. Essentially it is a refrence and partial tutorial on the WIN32 API or Applications Programmers Interface, the bones of the Windows OS. This book is essential to every Visual Basic programmer in that it teaches about the API and its interfaces and shows you how to use them to your advantage. This book does what it says and does it well. It can be used with most modern versions of Visual Basic but is updated for the VB6 version of Visual Basic. It is well laid out and the examples are fairly easy to follow. Great book and should be made a mandatory purchase for every Visual Basic programemr.

It's a dictionary... not a tutorial.

This is a mandatory book for every serious VB developer. It indeed holds hunderds of API functions but that doesn't mean you'll have to read all of them to understand the concept. Ever since I bought this book (that was the former edition, for VB5) I used it primerily as a refference, rather than a tutorial. Everytime I came accross the need for an API function, I opened the book at the respective chapter, searching for the right function. Just like a dictionary. You don't to read all of those frightening 1500+ pages... just look for the function you need/want... and yo're all set.

Can You Say "THE ULTIMATE API BOOK"? I knew you could

I have to admit when I bought this book, I had cruel intentions for it. But after reading it and begginnig working with the Win32 API from VB6. I was amazed as I watched the barriers that set VB and C++ apart crash down. Many say this book is for advanced users, but I knew very little about anything VB related when I picked up the book. And I understood every thing that Mr. Appleman said. It is a very easy to understand book that contains advanced food for your brain. I would reccomend it to anyone interested in expanding there programming horizons.

Not For The Faint-Hearted

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.

MASTER VISUAL BASIC WITH THIS BOOK !!!

This is the best book covering Windows API funtions in DEPTH ! What is Windows API ? When I was first introduced to API, I thought it was a new language entirely and that people were ditching VB in favor of it. Fortunately, I was wrong. Since learning, I have been told that API stands for "Alternate Programming Interface", "Advanced Programming Interface", "Application Programming Interface". In all reality it is "Application Programming Interface". Reading this book you will be able to take control of ANY windows based applications using Windows API Functions ! I even make America Online Add-ons using this GREAT book covering Windows API functions which are a MUST-NEEDED knowledge for VB Developer ! I want to thank Daniel Appleman for writing such a GREAT book which BREAKS all the limits of Visual Basic environment and gives us knowledge to CONTROL windows and its based applications ! - Dmitriy Gerasimov