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Title: Windows Nt Win32 Api Superbible by Richard J. Simon ISBN: 1-57169-089-1 Publisher: Waite Group Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Impressive Book
Comment: I have the Visual Basic 5.0 guide to Win32 by Daniel Appleman (which is incredible) and I was looking for a book to use as a general reference to WIN32 API calls as opposed to for VB, so I bought this book, and I think it is excellent!
The first 3 chapters are: WINDOWS 95/NT programming, THE WIN32 API, and CREATING WINDOWS.
That is pretty much 3 books in one right there!
The chapters I think make this book so nice are the chapters on the Registry, File Decompression, Threads, Timers, System Information, a really good File IO chapter that discusses File locking, Creating Icons.
The book is also hardback which I was surprised to see since the price was the same as the other books that aren't.
I have some programming experience but I would consider myself intermediate and I think this book is perfect for me.
I don't understand what the few people who wrote mediocre reviews were expecting, I would think that anyone who bought this book would know C or C++ already, and come on, reading this book won't teach you C++, but it will teach you to use API calls in your programs.
I don't mean to sound so "gungho" about this book but I have over 30 books about programming and NT etc., but so far only 2 of them have actually been useful, this book and Daniel Appleman's book on VB and WIN32.
I hate spending so much money on books I will never open again, so when a good one comes along I have to tell people about it.
Rating: 3
Summary: A useful reference, but surprisingly lacking in some areas.
Comment: Overall, this book provides the reader with a good reference to the basic Win32 API's, and I use it frequently in my work. The sample code is good overall, although I have found a few examples that are in error. The biggest disapointment, however, is that the book completely omits a reference section for the Windows messages -- something that was included in the old Windows 3.1 API Bible and should have been in this one as well.
Rating: 3
Summary: Close but no cigar........
Comment: Yes, the book does covers most every WIN32 API fuction call, but fails to leave out some pretty important information. For example, the book describes in detail the function anv various parameters and datatypes used by the function, but leaves out which LIBRARY .dll to use with your call.
Now I'm not a C++ code jockey, but I would have expected the book to identify which .dll needed to be called instead of indicating which C++ include file (wingdi.h) the function uses.
Other than that, the book is very well written and organized.
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Title: Win32 Programming (Addison-Wesley Advanced Windows Series) by Brent E. Rector, Joseph M. Newcomer ISBN: 0201634929 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: Windows 2000 API SuperBible by Richard Simon ISBN: 0672319330 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 17 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $64.99 |
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Title: .NET Framework Solutions: In Search of the Lost Win32 API by John Mueller, John Paul Mueller ISBN: 078214134X Publisher: Sybex Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (3rd Edition) by Marshall Brain, Ron Reeves ISBN: 0130225576 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Windows With MFC by Jeff Prosise ISBN: 1572316950 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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