Overview

This long-awaited complement to Appleman's previous bestseller shows programmers how to turbocharge VB by describing how to control the entire Windows API. Divided into three parts, the book begins with a series of programming puzzles of increasing complexity. Each puzzle describes a typical API function, followed by a small VB program applying the function. These programs almost work but are all missing something. Readers are challenged to solve the puzzle and fix the program -- thus learning in the process. The second part contains solutions to the puzzles, along with in-depth technical explanations, while the final part concludes with general tutorials that you can refer to for help in solving the problems.The book is primarily for VB6 programmers, but includes a VB5 source code tree as well.About the author:Dan Appleman has been developing applications for Microsoft Windows since its release in 1985. He founded Desaware Inc. in 1991, which focuses on the development of component software and tools for Visual Basic, including the best-selling SpyWorks, VersionStamper, and StorageTools products. He is the author of numerous best-selling books for computer programmers, including Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API.

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Author:   Dan Appleman
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.012kg
ISBN:  

9781893115019

ISBN 10:   1893115011
Pages:   100
Publication Date:   03 March 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I - The Puzzles: In the Beginning. Feeling Comfortable? In the Groove. OLE Smoke!- Rocket Science * Part II - The Solutions * Part III - The Tutorials: Tutorial 1: Finding Functions. Tutorial 2: Memory, Where It All Begins. Tutorial 3: A Bool and Its Bitfields are Soon Parted. Tutorial 4: How DLL Calls Work: Inside a Stack Frame. Tutorial 5: The ByVal keyword: The Solution to 90 Percent of All API Problems. Tutorial 6: C++ Variables Meet Visual Basic. Tutorial 7: Classes, Structures and User-Defined Types. Tutorial 8: Porting C Header Files. Tutorial 9: Inside A DLL File: Exploring the DumpInfo Program. Tutorial 10: A Case Study: The Service API. Tutorial 11: A Case Study: Reading the Event Long. Appendix A: Hints. Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions. Appendix C: APIGID32.DLL Library. IndexContents of CD-ROM: Sample code for all puzzles, solutions, and tutorials, VB 6.0 and 5.0-compatible source code, An API function database and search utility.

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Apress gets an A+! The high-end publishing company's first book ... is a grand slam. (borders.com)

Author Information

Michael Kofler holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Graz Technical University in Austria. He has written a number of successful computer books on topics such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, and Linux. Michael is the author of The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5, Third Edition and Definitive Guide to Excel VBA, Second Edition from Apress.

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